You also played the harlot with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, and multiplied your harlotry to make Me angry.

Thus you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians handled your bosom because of the breasts of your youth.

So I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolated lands. And her cities, in the midst of cities that are laid waste, will be desolate forty years; and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands.”

‘For thus says the Lord God, “At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples among whom they were scattered.

I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands.

When I scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands, then they will know that I am the Lord.’”