13. Then after those forty years have passed, I will bring your people back from the places where I scattered them.
14. They will once again live in their homeland in southern Egypt. But they will be a weak kingdom
15. and won't ever be strong enough to rule nations, as they did in the past.
16. My own people Israel will never again depend on your nation. In fact, when the Israelites remember what happened to you Egyptians, they will realize how wrong they were to turn to you for help. Then the Israelites will know that I, the Lord God, did these things.
17. Twenty-seven years after King Jehoiachin and the rest of us had been led away as prisoners to Babylonia, the Lord spoke to me on the first day of the first month. He said: