7When they took a grip of you in their hands, you were crushed so that their arms were broken: and when they put their weight on you for support, you were broken and all their muscles gave way.
8For this cause the Lord has said: See, I am sending a sword on you, cutting off from you man and beast.
9And the land of Egypt will be an unpeopled waste; and they will be certain that I am the Lord: because he has said, The Nile is mine, and I made it.
10See, then, I am against you and against your streams, and I will make the land of Egypt an unpeopled waste, from Migdol to Syene, even as far as the edge of Ethiopia.
11No foot of man will go through it and no foot of beast, and it will be unpeopled for forty years.
12I will make the land of Egypt a waste among the countries which are made waste, and her towns will be unpeopled among the towns which have been made waste, for forty years: and I will send the Egyptians in flight among the nations and wandering through the countries.
13For this is what the Lord has said: At the end of forty years I will get the Egyptians together from the peoples where they have gone in flight:
