Ezekiel 29:13-17

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.

And the family of Israel will never again depend on Egypt. The Israelites will remember their sin—they will remember that they turned to Egypt for help and not to God, and they will know that I am the Lord GOD.”

On the first day of the first month in the twenty-seventh year of exile, the word of the Lord came to me. He said,