For thus says the Lord GOD: *At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the peoples where they were scattered;
The LORD will strike Egypt, striking and healing. They will return to the LORD, and he will be entreated by them, and will heal them.
and I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their lives, and into the hand of Nevukhadnetzar 1 king of Bavel, and into the hand of his servants; and afterwards it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, says the LORD.