13. The Sovereign Lord says, “After forty years I will bring the Egyptians back from the nations where I have scattered them,
14. and I will let them live in southern Egypt, their original home. There they will be a weak kingdom,
15. the weakest kingdom of all, and they will never again rule over other nations. I will make them so unimportant that they will not be able to bend any other nation to their will.
16. Israel will never again depend on them for help. Egypt's fate will remind Israel how wrong it was to rely on them. Then Israel will know that I am the Sovereign Lord.”
17. On the first day of the first month of the 27th year of our exile, the Lord spoke to me.