Ezekiel 29:9-16

GOD’S WORD Translation

⁹ Egypt will become a wasteland and a pile of rubble. Then you will know that I am the Lord. You said, “The Nile River is mine. I made it.” ¹⁰ That is why I’m against you and the Nile River. I will turn Egypt into a pile of rubble. It will become a wasteland, from Migdol to Syene, all the way to the border of Sudan. ¹¹ No human or animal will walk through it, and no one will live there for 40 years. ¹² I will make Egypt the most desolate country in the world. For 40 years Egypt’s cities will lie in ruins. They will be ruined more than any other city. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and force them into other countries.

¹³ “ ‘This is what the Almighty Lord says: After 40 years I will gather the Egyptians from the nations where they have been scattered. ¹⁴ I will bring back the Egyptian captives and return them to Pathros,^[a] the land they came from. There they will be a weak kingdom. ¹⁵ They will be the weakest kingdom, and they will never rule the nations again. I will make them so weak that they will never rule the nations again. ¹⁶ The nation of Israel will never trust Egypt again. The people of Israel will remember how wrong they were whenever they turned to Egypt ⌞for help⌟. Then they will know that I am the Almighty Lord.’ ”