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and the land of Egypt shall be ruined and desert; and they shall know that I am the Lord; because thou sayest, The rivers are mine, and I made them.
10
Therefore, behold, I am against thee, and against all thy rivers, and I will give up the land of Egypt to desolation, and the sword, and destruction, from Magdol and Syene even to the borders of the Ethiopians.
11
No foot of man shall pass through it, and no foot of beast shall pass through it, and it shall not be inhabited for forty years.
12
And I will cause her land to be utterly destroyed in the midst of a land that is desolate, and her cities shall be forty years in the midst of cities that are desolate: and I will disperse Egypt among the nations, and will utterly scatter them into the countries.
13
Thus saith the Lord; After forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the nations among whom they have been scattered;
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.