Ezekiel 29:10-12

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁰ therefore, I am against you, and against your channels, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from Migdol to Syene, as far as the border of Ethiopia.^{[a] 11} No human foot shall pass through it, and no animal foot shall pass through it; it shall be uninhabited forty years. ¹² I will make the land of Egypt a desolation among desolated countries; and her cities shall be a desolation forty years among cities that are laid waste. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the countries.