rsv Ezekiel:29:8-14
rsv@Ezekiel:29:8 @ therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will bring a sword upon you, and will cut off from you man and beast;
rsv@Ezekiel:29:9 @ and the land of Egypt shall be a desolation and a waste. Then they will know that I am the LORD. "Because you said, `The Nile is mine, and I made it,'
rsv@Ezekiel:29:10 @ therefore, behold, I am against you, and against your streams, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from Migdol to Syene, as far as the border of Ethiopia.
rsv@Ezekiel:29:11 @ No foot of man shall pass through it, and no foot of beast shall pass through it; it shall be uninhabited forty years.
rsv@Ezekiel:29:12 @ And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of 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.
rsv@Ezekiel:29:13 @ "For thus says the Lord GOD: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples among whom they were scattered;
rsv@Ezekiel:29:14 @ and I will restore the fortunes of Egypt, and bring them back to the land of Pathros, the land of their origin; and there they shall be a lowly kingdom.