Ezekiel 29:8-21

8‘Therefore thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I will 1bring upon you a sword and I will cut off from you man and beast. 9The 2land of Egypt will become a desolation and waste. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

Because 3you 4said, ‘The Nile is mine, and I have made it,’ 10therefore, behold, I am 5against you and against your 6rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from Migdol to Syene and even to the border of 7Ethiopia. 11A man’s foot will 8not 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 9midst of desolated lands. And her cities, in the midst of cities that are laid waste, will be desolate forty years; and I will 10scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands.”

13‘For thus says the Lord God, “At the end of forty years I will 11gather the Egyptians from the peoples 12among whom they were scattered. 14I will turn the fortunes of Egypt and make them return to the land of 13Pathros, to the land of their origin, and there they will be a lowly kingdom. 15It will be the 14lowest of the kingdoms, and it will never again lift itself up above the nations. And I will make them so small that they will not 15rule over the nations. 16And it will never again be the 16confidence of the house of Israel, 1718bringing to mind the iniquity of their having turned 19to Egypt. Then they will know that I am the Lord God.”’”

17Now in the 20twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first of the month, the word of the Lord came to me saying, 18“Son of man, 21Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army labor 22hard against Tyre; every head was made 23bald and every shoulder was rubbed bare. But he and his army had no wages from Tyre for the labor that he had 24performed against it.” 19Therefore thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I 25will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. And he will carry off her 2627wealth and capture her spoil and seize her plunder; and it will be wages for his army. 20I have given him the land of Egypt for his labor which he 2829performed, because they acted for Me,” declares the Lord God.

21“On that day I will make a 30horn sprout for the house of Israel, and I will 3132open your mouth in their midst. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”