^26 (A)I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their life, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and his officers. ^(B)Afterward Egypt shall be inhabited ^(C)as in the days of old, declares the Lord.

¹¹ “For thus says the Lord God: ^(A)The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon you.

³⁰ Thus says the Lord, Behold, I will give ^(A)Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies ^(B)and into the hand of those who seek his life, as I gave ^(C)Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who was his enemy and sought his life.”

⁸ Therefore thus says the Lord God: ^(A)Behold, I will bring a sword upon you, and will cut off from you man and beast, ⁹ and the land of Egypt shall be a desolation and a waste. ^(B)Then they will know that I am the Lord.

^(C)“Because you^[a] said, ‘The Nile is mine, and I made it,’ ¹⁰ therefore, ^(D)behold, I am against you and ^(E)against your streams, and ^(F)I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, ^(G)from Migdol to Syene, as far as the border of Cush. ^11 (H)No foot of man shall pass through it, and no foot of beast shall pass through it; it shall be uninhabited forty years. ^12 (I)And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolated countries, and her cities shall be a desolation forty years among cities that are laid waste. ^(J)I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the countries.

¹³ “For thus says the Lord God: At the end of forty years ^(K)I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples among whom they were scattered, ¹⁴ and ^(L)I will restore the fortunes of Egypt and bring them back to ^(M)the land of Pathros, the land of their origin, and there they shall be a lowly kingdom.

³⁹ “But in the latter days ^(A)I will restore the fortunes of ^(B)Elam, declares the Lord.”