Study it in the app“therefore look, I am against you and against your channels, and I will make the land of Egypt into ruins of dryness, a desolation, from Migdol to Syene and as far as the border of Cush.”
thereforeלָכֵןlook, I amהִנְנִיagainst youאֵלֶיךָand against your channels,וְאֶל יְאֹרֶיךָand I will makeוְנָתַתִּיthe landאֶרֶץof Egyptמִצְרַיִםinto ruinsלְחָרְבוֹתof dryness,חֹרֶבa desolation,שְׁמָמָהfrom Migdolמִמִּגְדֹּלto Syeneסְוֵנֵהand as far asוְעַדthe borderגְּבוּלof Cush.כּוּשׁ
Nile
See it on the mapWhere else “yeore” appearsmake
To make someone something: "I have made you a father".
Where else “natati” appearsland
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “erets” appearsEgypt, Mizraim
See it on the mapWhere else “mitsrayim” appearsruin, desolate place
A ruin, a destroyed and deserted place.
Where else “charvot” appearsdrought
A time without rain, when the land is left without water.
Where else “chorev” appearsdesolation
Desolation: a land left empty and uncultivated; also horror.
Where else “shemama” appearsMigdol
Migdol, "tower": a fortified post on the border of Egypt.
Where else “migdol” appearsSyene
Syene: a place at the far south of Egypt (Aswan).
Where else “sevene” appearsborder
The border of a land.
Where else “gevul” appearsCush
Cush, the name of a son of Ham and of the region of his descendants, south of Egypt (Nubia; many Bibles put "Ethiopia"). This translation keeps the Hebrew name. Also an Israelite.
Where else “kush” appears1Nile
Today: Nile River, Uganda to Egypt and the Mediterranean
Egypt's great river; it flows north to the Mediterranean Sea.
Pharaoh dreamed beside the Nile (Gen 41:1). God turned its waters to blood (Exod 7:20), and baby Moses was placed on its bank (Exod 2:3-5).
2Egypt
Today: Egypt (Nile Valley)
A country in northeast Africa along the Nile River, southwest of Israel.
Joseph was sold into it, and his family went down to live there (Gen 37:28; 46:6). God brought Israel out of it with a mighty hand (Exod 12:41). The child Jesus fled there with his parents (Matt 2:14).
9And the land of Egypt will become a desolation and a ruin, and they will know that I am YHWH; because he said, “The Nile is mine, and I made it,”
10 · This verse (above)
11No human foot will pass through it, and the foot of livestock will not pass through it, and it will not be inhabited forty years.
