9 until your land is a barren desert. Then you will know that I have done these things.You claimed that you made the River Nile and control it.
10 Now I am turning against you and your river. Your nation will be nothing but an empty wasteland all the way from the town of Migdol in the north to Aswan in the south, and as far as the border of Ethiopia.
11 No human or animal will even dare travel through Egypt, because no sign of life will be found there for forty years.
12 It will be the most barren place on earth. Every city in Egypt will lie in ruins during those forty years, and I will scatter your people throughout the nations of the world.
13 Then after those forty years have passed, I will bring your people back from the places where I scattered them.
14 They will once again live in their homeland in southern Egypt. But they will be a weak kingdom
15 and won't ever be strong enough to rule nations, as they did in the past.