Bible in Basic English
"For this is what the Lord has said: At the end of forty years I will get the Egyptians together from the peoples where they have gone in flight:"
— Ezekiel 29:13, Bible in Basic English
“Yet thus saith the Lord God; At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered:”
“For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the peoples whither they were scattered; ”
“For thus says the Lord Yahweh: "At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the peoples where they were scattered;”
““‘For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: At the end of forty years I will gather Egypt from the peoples where they were scattered.”
See, then, I am against you and against your streams, and I will make the land of Egypt an unpeopled waste, from Migdol to Syene, even as far as the edge of Ethiopia.
No foot of man will go through it and no foot of beast, and it will be unpeopled for forty years.
I will make the land of Egypt a waste among the countries which are made waste, and her towns will be unpeopled among the towns which have been made waste, for forty years: and I will send the Egyptians in flight among the nations and wandering through the countries.
For this is what the Lord has said: At the end of forty years I will get the Egyptians together from the peoples where they have gone in flight:
I will let the fate of Egypt be changed, and will make them come back into the land of Pathros, into the land from which they came; and there they will be an unimportant kingdom.
It will be the lowest of the kingdoms, and never again will it be lifted up over the nations: I will make them small, so that they may not have rule over the nations.
And Egypt will no longer be the hope of the children of Israel, causing sin to come to mind when their eyes are turned to them: and they will be certain that I am the Lord.