Ezekiel 29:11 “No foot of man or beast will pass through, and it will be uninhabited…”

Ezekiel 29:11

No foot of man or beast will pass through, and it will be uninhabited for forty years.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.

World English Bible

No foot of man will pass through it, nor will any animal foot pass through it. It won’t be inhabited for forty years.

American Standard Version

No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.

Geneva Bible 1599

No foote of man shall passe by it, nor foote of beast shall passe by it, neither shall it be inhabited fourtie yeeres.

Darby Translation

No foot of man shall pass through it, nor shall foot of beast pass through it, nor shall it be inhabited, forty years.

Young's Literal Translation

Not pass over into it doth a foot of man, Yea, the foot of beast doth not pass into it, Nor is it inhabited forty years.

Bible in Basic English

No foot of man will go through it and no foot of beast, and it will be unpeopled for forty years.

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Cross references

“foot of man”

Ezekiel 32:13 Ezekiel 30:10–13 Ezekiel 31:12 Ezekiel 33:28 Ezekiel 36:28 Jeremiah 43:11

Ezekiel 32:13 · BSB

I will slaughter all her cattle beside the abundant waters. No human foot will muddy them again, and no cattle hooves will disturb them.

Ezekiel 30:10–13 · BSB

This is what the Lord GOD says: I will put an end to the hordes of Egypt by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.

Ezekiel 31:12 · BSB

Foreigners, the most ruthless of the nations, cut it down and left it. Its branches have fallen on the mountains and in every valley; its boughs lay broken in all the earth’s ravines. And all the peoples of the earth lef…

Ezekiel 33:28 · BSB

I will make the land a desolate waste, and the pride of her strength will come to an end. The mountains of Israel will become desolate, so that no one will pass through.

Ezekiel 36:28 · BSB

Then you will live in the land that I gave your forefathers; you will be My people, and I will be your God.

Jeremiah 43:11 · BSB

He will come and strike down the land of Egypt, bringing death to those destined for death, captivity to those destined for captivity, and the sword to those destined for the sword.

“forty”

2 Chronicles 36:21 Isaiah 23:15 Isaiah 23:17 Jeremiah 29:10 Daniel 9:2 Jeremiah 25:11

2 Chronicles 36:21 · BSB

So the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation, until seventy years were completed, in fulfillment of the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah.

Isaiah 23:15 · BSB

At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years—the span of a king’s life. But at the end of seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot:

Isaiah 23:17 · BSB

And at the end of seventy years, the LORD will restore Tyre. Then she will return to hire as a prostitute and sell herself to all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.

Jeremiah 29:10 · BSB

For this is what the LORD says: “When Babylon’s seventy years are complete, I will attend to you and confirm My promise to restore you to this place.

Daniel 9:2 · BSB

in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the sacred books, according to the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years.

Jeremiah 25:11 · BSB

And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

10therefore I am against you and against your rivers. I will turn the land of Egypt into a ruin, a desolate wasteland from Migdol to Syene, and as far as the border of Cush.

12I will make the land of Egypt a desolation among desolate lands, and her cities will lie desolate for forty years among the ruined cities. And I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them throughout the countries.

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