⁹ And the land of Egypt will become^[a] a desolation and ruins, and they will know that I am Yahweh because he^[b] said, ‘The Nile is mine!^[c] And I, I made it!’ ¹⁰ Therefore look! I am against you and against your Nile streams, and I will make the land of Egypt into ruins, a pile of rubble, a desolation from Migdol to Syene and up to the boundary of Cush. ¹¹ A foot of a human will not pass over it, and a foot of an animal will not pass over it, and so it will not be inhabited for forty years.^{[d] 12} And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolated countries, and its cities to be in the midst of ruined cities. They will be a desolation for forty years, and I will scatter Egypt among the nations, and I will disperse them among the countries.”

¹³ For thus says the Lord Yahweh: “At the end of forty years I will gather Egypt from the peoples among whom they were scattered. ¹⁴ And I will restore the fortunes of Egypt, and I will bring them back to the land of Pathros, to the land of their origin, and they will be a lowly kingdom there. ¹⁵ Of all the kingdoms it will be the most lowly, and it will not exalt itself again over the nations, and I will make them small so as not to rule over the nations. ¹⁶ And it will not be again for the house of Israel an object of trust, bringing to remembrance their guilt when they turned back to them,^[e] and they will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.”