¹³ “‘But the Lord God says that at the end of the forty years he will bring the Egyptians home again from the nations to which they will be banished. ¹⁴ And I will restore the fortunes of Egypt and bring her people back to the land of Pathros in southern Egypt where they were born, but she will be an unimportant, minor kingdom. ¹⁵ She will be the lowliest of all the nations; never again will she raise herself above the other nations; never again will Egypt be great enough for that.