NSB(i)
8 »‘Therefore the Lord Jehovah says: »I will bring upon you a sword and I will cut off from you man and beast.
9 »‘The land of Egypt will become a desolation and waste. Then they will know that I am Jehovah. Because you said: ‘The Nile is mine, and I have made it.’
10 »I am against you and against your rivers. I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from Migdol to Syene and even to the border of Ethiopia.
11 »A man's foot will not pass through it, and the foot of a beast will not pass through it, and it will not be inhabited for forty years.
12 »So I will make the land of Egypt desolation in the midst of desolated lands. And her cities, in the midst of cities that are laid waste, will be desolate forty years. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands.«
13 »‘The Lord Jehovah says: »At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples among whom they were scattered.
14 »»‘I will turn the fortunes of Egypt and make them return to the land of Pathros, to the land of their origin. They will be a lowly kingdom.