²³ And scattered the Egyptians among nations, And I have spread them through lands,

¹⁷ The youths of Aven and Pi-Beseth by sword do fall, And these into captivity do go.

¹⁸ And in Tehaphnehes hath the day been dark, In My breaking there the yokes of Egypt, And ceased in her hath the excellency of her strength, She -- a cloud doth cover her, And her daughters into captivity do go.

²⁶ And I have scattered the Egyptians among nations, And I have spread them through lands, And they have known that I `am' Jehovah!'

¹² And I have made the land of Egypt a desolation, In the midst of desolate lands, And its cities, in the midst of waste cities, Are a desolation forty years, And I have scattered the Egyptians among nations, And I have dispersed them through lands.

¹³ But thus said the Lord Jehovah: At the end of forty years I gather the Egyptians Out of the peoples whither they have been scattered,