Ezekiel 29:8-14

“ ‘Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: I am going to bring a sword  against you and cut off both people and animals from you. The land of Egypt will be a desolate ruin.  Then they will know that I am the Lord. Because you  said, “The Nile is my own; I made it,” therefore, I am against you and your Nile. I will turn the land of Egypt into ruins, a desolate waste from Migdol to Syene, as far as the border of Cush. No human foot will pass through it, and no animal foot will pass through it.  It will be uninhabited for forty years. I will make the land of Egypt a desolation among  desolate lands, and its cities will be a desolation among  ruined cities  for forty years. I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.  “ ‘For this is what the Lord God says: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples where they were dispersed.  I will restore the fortunes of Egypt and bring them back to the land of Pathros, the land of their origin. There they will be a lowly kingdom.