Ezequiel 29:11

11 No pasará por ella pie de hombre, ni pie de bestia pasará por ella; ni será habitada por cuarenta años

Ezequiel 29:11 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 29:11

No foot of man shall pass through it
This must be understood not strictly, but with some limitation; it cannot be thought that Egypt was so depopulated as that there should not be a single passenger in it; but that there should be few inhabitants in it, or that there should be scarce any that should come into it for traffic; it should not be frequented as it had been at least there should be very few that travelled in it, in comparison of what had: no foot of beast shall pass through it:
no droves of sheep and oxen, and such like useful cattle, only beasts of prey should dwell in it: neither shall it be inhabited forty years:
afterwards, ( Ezekiel 29:17 ) , a prophecy is given out concerning the destruction of it by Nebuchadnezzar, which was in the twenty seventh year, that is, of Jeconiah's captivity; now allowing three years for the fulfilment of that prophecy, or forty years, a round number put for forty three years, they will end about the time that Cyrus conquered Babylon, at which time the seventy years' captivity of the Jews ended; and very likely the captivity of the Egyptians also. The Jews pretend to give a reason why Egypt lay waste just forty years, because the famine, signified in Pharaoh's dream, was to have lasted, as they make it out, forty two years; whereas, according to them, it continued only two years; and, instead of the other forty years of famine, Egypt must be forty years uninhabited: this is mentioned both by Jarchi and Kimchi.

Ezequiel 29:11 In-Context

9 Y la tierra de Egipto será asolada y desierta; y sabrán que yo soy el SEÑOR, porque dijo: Mi río, y yo lo hice

10 Por tanto, he aquí estoy contra ti, y contra tus ríos; y pondré la tierra de Egipto en asolamientos de la soledad del desierto, desde la torre de Sevene, hasta el término de Etiopía

11 No pasará por ella pie de hombre, ni pie de bestia pasará por ella; ni será habitada por cuarenta años

12 Y pondré a la tierra de Egipto en soledad entre las tierras asoladas, y sus ciudades entre las ciudades destruidas estarán asoladas por cuarenta años; y esparciré a Egipto entre las naciones, y los aventaré por las tierras

13 Porque así dijo el Señor DIOS: Al fin de cuarenta años juntaré a Egipto de los pueblos entre los cuales fueren esparcidos