Ezekiel 29:11-15

No person or animal will pass through Egypt. Nothing will pass through or settle there for 40 years.

I will destroy Egypt. The cities will be in ruins for 40 years! I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations. I will make them strangers in foreign lands.”

This is what the Lord GOD says: “I will scatter the people of Egypt among many nations. But at the end of 40 years, I will gather those people together again.

I will bring back the Egyptian captives. I will bring back the Egyptians to the land of Pathros, to the land where they were born. But their kingdom will not be important.

It will be the least important kingdom. It will never again lift itself above the other nations. I will make them so small that they will not rule over the nations.