Holy Scripture

Ezekiel 29:12

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 27, 29 onwards) Therefore speak to the house of Israel, son of man, and tell them: Thus says the Lord God: Moreover, your fathers have blasphemed against me and have treated me with contempt, even as they spurned me. And I brought them into the land that I had lifted my hand to give them ((Vulgate adds: that la…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Ezekiel

Source: Septuagint

Original

12And I will cause her land to be utterly destroyed in the midst of a land that is desolate, and her cities shall be desolate forty years in the midst of cities that are desolate: and I will disperse Egypt among the nations, and will utterly scatter them into the countries.

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In context

10Therefore, behold, I am against thee, and against all thy rivers, and I will give up the land of Egypt to desolation, and the sword, and destruction, from Migdol and Syene even to the borders of the Ethiopians.

11No foot of man shall pass through it, and no foot of beast shall pass through it, and it shall not be inhabited for forty years.

— Ezekiel 29:12 —

13Thus saith the Lord; After forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the nations among whom they have been scattered;

14and I will turn the captivity of the Egyptians, and will cause them to dwell in the land of Pathros, in the land whence they were taken;

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