Ezekiel 29:12-14

International Standard Version

¹² I’ll see to it that Egypt becomes a devastated land in the midst of devastated lands. Her cities deep inside her territories will be laid waste and desolate for 40 years. I will scatter Egypt among the nations and disperse them throughout the land.’”

Restoration of Egypt after Judgment

¹³ “Because this is what the Lord says: ‘At the end of 40 years I’ll gather the Egyptians from the people among whom they have been scattered. ¹⁴ I’ll restore the economy^[a] of Egypt and return them to the land of Pathros,^[b] from which they originated, and there they will remain an insignificant kingdom,