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 And ye have known that I `am' Jehovah, In their wounded being in the midst of their idols, Round about their altars, On every high hill, on all tops of mountains, And under every green tree, and under every thick oak, The place where they gave sweet fragrance to all their idols.

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.

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

⁴² `And he sendeth forth his hand upon the lands, and the land of Egypt is not for an escape;