Ezekiel 29:5-12

5I will 1abandon you to the wilderness, you and all the fish of your 2rivers; You will fall on the 3open field; you will not be brought together or 45gathered. I have given you for 6food to the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the sky.6Then all the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am the Lord, Because they have been only a 7staff made of reed to the house of Israel.7When they took hold of you with the hand, You 8broke and tore all their 9hands; And when they leaned on you, You broke and made all their loins 10quake.”

8‘Therefore thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I will 11bring upon you a sword and I will cut off from you man and beast. 9The 12land of Egypt will become a desolation and waste. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

Because 13you 14said, ‘The Nile is mine, and I have made it,’ 10therefore, behold, I am 15against you and against your 16rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from Migdol to Syene and even to the border of 17Ethiopia. 11A man’s foot will 18not pass through it, and the foot of a beast will not pass through it, and it will not be inhabited for forty years. 12So I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the 19midst of desolated lands. And her cities, in the midst of cities that are laid waste, will be desolate forty years; and I will 20scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands.”