7. "When they took hold of you with the hand, You broke and tore all their hands; And when they leaned on you, You broke and made all their loins quake."
8. 'Therefore thus says the Lord God, "Behold, 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 the Lord. Because you said, 'The Nile is mine, and I have made it,'
10. therefore, behold, I am against you and against your rivers, and 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 a desolation in the midst of desolated lands. And her cities, in the midst of cities that are laid waste, will be desolate forty years; and I will scatter 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 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, and there they will be a lowly kingdom.
15. It will be the lowest 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 rule over the nations.
16. And it will never again be the confidence of the house of Israel, bringing to mind the iniquity of their having turned to Egypt. Then they will know that I am the Lord God."'"
17. Now in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first of the month, the word of the Lord came to me saying,