Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee.

And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know that I am the Lord: because he hath said, The river is mine, and I have made it.

10 Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia.

11 No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.

12 And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.

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“‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will bring a sword against you and kill both man and beast.(A) Egypt will become a desolate wasteland. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

“‘Because you said, “The Nile(B) is mine; I made it,(C) 10 therefore I am against you(D) and against your streams, and I will make the land of Egypt(E) a ruin and a desolate waste(F) from Migdol(G) to Aswan,(H) as far as the border of Cush.[a](I) 11 The foot of neither man nor beast will pass through it; no one will live there for forty years.(J) 12 I will make the land of Egypt desolate(K) among devastated lands, and her cities will lie desolate forty years among ruined cities. And I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them through the countries.(L)

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 29:10 That is, the upper Nile region