7 When Israel leaned on you,you splintered and brokeand stabbed her in the armpit.When she put her weight on you,you collapsed, and her legs gave way.
8 “Therefore, this is what the Sovereign lord says: I will bring an army against you, O Egypt, and destroy both people and animals.
9 The land of Egypt will become a desolate wasteland, and the Egyptians will know that I am the lord.“Because you said, ‘The Nile River is mine; I made it,’
10 I am now the enemy of both you and your river. I will make the land of Egypt a totally desolate wasteland, from Migdol to Aswan, as far south as the border of Ethiopia.
11 For forty years not a soul will pass that way, neither people nor animals. It will be completely uninhabited.
12 I will make Egypt desolate, and it will be surrounded by other desolate nations. Its cities will be empty and desolate for forty years, surrounded by other ruined cities. I will scatter the Egyptians to distant lands.
13 “But this is what the Sovereign lord also says: At the end of the forty years I will bring the Egyptians home again from the nations to which they have been scattered.