Ezequiel 29:11

11 Durante cuarenta años quedará completamente deshabitada, y ni hombres ni animales pasarán por allí.

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 La tierra de Egipto se convertirá en desolación. Entonces sabrán que yo soy el SEÑOR. Tú dijiste: ‘El Nilo es mío, el Nilo es mi creación’.

10 Por eso me declaro en contra tuya y en contra de tus ríos. Desde Migdol hasta Asuán, y hasta la frontera con Etiopía, convertiré a la tierra de Egipto en ruina y desolación total.

11 Durante cuarenta años quedará completamente deshabitada, y ni hombres ni animales pasarán por allí.

12 Haré de Egipto la más desolada de todas las tierras, y durante cuarenta años sus ciudades quedarán en ruinas y en medio de gran desolación. Yo dispersaré a los egipcios entre las naciones, y los esparciré por los países.

13 »”Así dice el SEÑOR omnipotente: Al cabo de los cuarenta años reuniré a los egipcios de entre los pueblos donde fueron dispersados.