Ezekiel 29:11

Judgment

⁹ And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know that I am the LORD: because he hath said, The river is mine, and I have made it.

¹⁰ Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia.

No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.

¹² And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.

¹³ Yet thus saith the Lord GOD; At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered:

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: No foot of man or beast will pass through, and it will be uninhabited for forty years.
KJV: No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.
WEB: No foot of man will pass through it, nor will any animal foot pass through it. It won’t be inhabited for forty years.
ASV: No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.
DARBY: No foot of man shall pass through it, nor shall foot of beast pass through it, nor shall it be inhabited, forty years.
BLB: The foot of man will not pass through it, and the foot of beast will not pass through it, and it will not be inhabited forty years.

ÅB: Ingen menneskefot skal fare fram der, og ingen fefot skal fare fram der, og det skal ikke reise seg igjen på førti år.
OTB: Ingen menneskefot skal gå gjennom det, heller ikke foten av et dyr skal gå gjennom det, og det skal være ubebodd i førti år.
B1930: Ingen menneskefot skal fare frem der, og ingen fefot skal fare frem der, og det skal ikke reise sig igjen på firti år.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Ezekiel 32:13
I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the great waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them.
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Jeremiah 43:11–12
And when he cometh, he shall smite the land of Egypt, and deliver such as are for death to death; and such as are for captivity to captivity; and such as are for the sword to the sword.
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Ezekiel 31:12
And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
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Ezekiel 30:10–13
Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.
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Ezekiel 33:28
For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through.
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Ezekiel 36:28
And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
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Daniel 9:2
In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
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2 Chronicles 36:21
To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
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