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Good News Translation

Ezekiel 29:11

No human being or animal will walk through it. For forty years nothing will live there.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Forty;   Thompson Chain Reference - Forty Years;   Periods and Numbers;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Egypt;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Repentance;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Nebuchadnezzar;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Fasting;   Jesus Christ;   No;   Number;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ezekiel;   Pharaoh;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Nebuchadrezzar;   Number;   Pharaoh;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Numbers;   Numbers (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Egypt;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Forty, the Number;   Nebuchadnezzar;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
No human foot will pass through it, and no animal foot will pass through it. It will be uninhabited for forty years.
Hebrew Names Version
No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of animal shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.
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.
English Standard Version
No foot of man shall pass through it, and no foot of beast shall pass through it; it shall be uninhabited forty years.
New American Standard Bible
"A human foot will not pass through it, nor will the foot of an animal pass through it, and it will not be inhabited for forty years.
New Century Version
No person or animal will walk through it, and no one will live in Egypt for forty years.
Amplified Bible
"No man's foot will pass through it, no animal's foot will pass through it, and it will not be inhabited for forty years.
World English Bible
No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of animal shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.
Geneva Bible (1587)
No foote of man shall passe by it, nor foote of beast shall passe by it, neither shall it be inhabited fourtie yeeres.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"A man's foot will not pass through it, and the foot of a beast will not pass through it, and it will not be inhabited for forty years.
Legacy Standard Bible
A man's foot will not pass through it, and the foot of a beast will not pass through it, and it will not be inhabited for forty years.
Berean Standard Bible
No foot of man or beast will pass through, and it will be uninhabited for forty years.
Contemporary English Version
No human or animal will even dare travel through Egypt, because no sign of life will be found there for forty years.
Complete Jewish Bible
No human foot will pass through it, and no animal foot will pass through it; it will be uninhabited for forty years.
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.
Easy-to-Read Version
No person or animal will pass through Egypt. Nothing will pass through or settle there for 40 years.
George Lamsa Translation
No foot of man shall pass through it, neither foot of beast, nor shall it be inhabited forty years.
Lexham English Bible
A foot of a human will not pass over it, and a foot of an animal will not pass over it, and so it will not be inhabited for forty years.
Literal Translation
The foot of man shall not pass through it, and the foot of beast shall not pass through it, and you shall not dwell forty years.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
so that in xl. yeares there shall no fote off man walke there, nether fote of catell go there, nether shal it be inhabited.
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.
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.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.
King James Version (1611)
No foot of man shal passe through it, nor foote of beast shall passe through it, neither shall it bee inhabited fourtie yeeres.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
No foote of man shall passe by it, nor foote of beast shall passe by it, neither shall it be inhabited fourtie yeres.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
No foot of man shall pass through it, and no foot of beast shall pass through it, and it shall not be inhabited for forty years.
English Revised Version
No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The foot of man schal not passe bi it, nether the foot of beeste schal go in it, and it schal not be enhabitid in fourti yeer.
Update Bible Version
No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.
Webster's Bible Translation
No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.
New English Translation
No human foot will pass through it, and no animal's foot will pass through it; it will be uninhabited for forty years.
New King James Version
Neither foot of man shall pass through it nor foot of beast pass through it, and it shall be uninhabited forty years.
New Living Translation
For forty years not a soul will pass that way, neither people nor animals. It will be completely uninhabited.
New Life Bible
No foot of man or animal will pass through it, and no one will live there for forty years.
New Revised Standard
No human foot shall pass through it, and no animal foot shall pass through it; it shall be uninhabited forty years.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The foot of man shall not pass through it, Nor shall the foot of beast, pass through it, Neither shall it be inhabited forty years:
Douay-Rheims Bible
The foot of man shall not pass through it, neither shall the foot of beasts go through it: nor shall it be inhabited during forty years.
Revised Standard Version
No foot of man shall pass through it, and no foot of beast shall pass through it; it shall be uninhabited 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.

Contextual Overview

8 Now then, I, the Sovereign Lord , am telling you that I will have troops attack you with swords, and they will kill your people and your animals. 9 Egypt will become an empty wasteland. Then you will know that I am the Lord . "Because you said that the Nile is yours and you made it, 10 I am your enemy and the enemy of your Nile. I will make all of Egypt an empty wasteland, from the city of Migdol in the north to the city of Aswan in the south, all the way to the Ethiopian border. 11 No human being or animal will walk through it. For forty years nothing will live there. 12 I will make Egypt the most desolate country in the world. For forty years the cities of Egypt will lie in ruins, ruins worse than those of any other city. I will make the Egyptians refugees. They will flee to every country and live among other peoples." 13 The Sovereign Lord says, "After forty years I will bring the Egyptians back from the nations where I have scattered them, 14 and I will let them live in southern Egypt, their original home. There they will be a weak kingdom, 15 the weakest kingdom of all, and they will never again rule other nations. I will make them so unimportant that they will not be able to bend any other nation to their will. 16 Israel will never again depend on them for help. Egypt's fate will remind Israel how wrong it was to rely on them. Then Israel will know that I am the Sovereign Lord ."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

foot of man: Ezekiel 30:10-13, Ezekiel 31:12, Ezekiel 32:13, Ezekiel 33:28, Ezekiel 36:28, Jeremiah 43:11, Jeremiah 43:12

forty: 2 Chronicles 36:21, Isaiah 23:15, Isaiah 23:17, Jeremiah 25:11, Jeremiah 25:12, Jeremiah 29:10, Daniel 9:2

Reciprocal: Isaiah 34:10 - from Jeremiah 9:10 - so Jeremiah 51:43 - a land Ezekiel 29:10 - I will Ezekiel 35:7 - passeth

Cross-References

Genesis 27:26
Then his father said to him, "Come closer and kiss me, son."
Genesis 29:13
and when he heard the news about his nephew Jacob, he ran to meet him, hugged him and kissed him, and brought him into the house. When Jacob told Laban everything that had happened,
Genesis 29:14
Laban said, "Yes, indeed, you are my own flesh and blood." Jacob stayed there a whole month.
Genesis 29:15
Laban said to Jacob, "You shouldn't work for me for nothing just because you are my relative. How much pay do you want?"
Genesis 43:30
Then Joseph left suddenly, because his heart was full of tender feelings for his brother. He was about to break down, so he went to his room and cried.
Genesis 45:2
He cried with such loud sobs that the Egyptians heard it, and the news was taken to the king's palace.
Exodus 4:27
Meanwhile the Lord had said to Aaron, "Go into the desert to meet Moses." So he went to meet him at the holy mountain; and when he met him, he kissed him.
Exodus 18:7
so Moses went out to meet him, bowed before him, and kissed him. They asked about each other's health and then went into Moses' tent.
Romans 16:16
Greet one another with the kiss of peace. All the churches of Christ send you their greetings.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

No foot of man shall pass through it,.... This must be understood not strictly, but with some limitation; it cannot be thought that Egypt was so depopulated as that there should not be a single passenger in it; but that there should be few inhabitants in it, or that there should be scarce any that should come into it for traffic; it should not be frequented as it had been at least there should be very few that travelled in it, in comparison of what had:

no foot of beast shall pass through it: no droves of sheep and oxen, and such like useful cattle, only beasts of prey should dwell in it:

neither shall it be inhabited forty years: afterwards, Ezekiel 29:17, a prophecy is given out concerning the destruction of it by Nebuchadnezzar, which was in the twenty seventh year, that is, of Jeconiah's captivity; now allowing three years for the fulfilment of that prophecy, or forty years, a round number put for forty three years, they will end about the time that Cyrus conquered Babylon, at which time the seventy years' captivity of the Jews ended; and very likely the captivity of the Egyptians also. The Jews pretend to give a reason why Egypt lay waste just forty years, because the famine, signified in Pharaoh's dream, was to have lasted, as they make it out, forty two years; whereas, according to them, it continued only two years; and, instead of the other forty years of famine, Egypt must be forty years uninhabited: this is mentioned both by Jarchi and Kimchi.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

From the tower of Syene - Or, as in the margin, “Migdol” (“tower”) was about two miles from Suez. “Syene” was the most southern town in Egypt, on the borders of Ethiopia, in the Thebaid, on the eastern bank of the Nile. The modern Assvan lies a little to the northeast of the ancient Syene.

We have no record of the circumstances of the Chaldsaean invasion of Egypt, but it is possible that it did not take place until after the fall of Tyre. We gather of what nature it must have been by comparing the description of the results of Assyrian conquest (Isaiah 37:25 ff). Minute fulfillment of every detail of prophecy is not to be insisted upon, but only the general fact that Egypt would for a time, described as 40 years, be in a state of collapse. No great stress is to be laid on the exact number of years. The number of years passed in the wilderness became to the Hebrews a significant period of chastisement.

Nebuchadnezzars occupation of Egypt was of no long duration, and his ravages, though severe, must have been partial. Peace with Babylon was favorable to the development of home-works, but since the peace was in truth subjugation, it was hollow and in fact ruinous. Further, it is to be remembered that God fulfils His decree by a gradual rather than an immediate process. The ravages of Nebuchadnezzar were the beginning of the end, and all the desolation which followed may be looked upon as a continuous fulfillment of God’s decree. The savage fury with which Cambyses swept over Egypt amply realized all that Ezekiel foretold. Many places recovered some wealth and prosperity, but from the time of Herodotus the kingdom never again became really independent. Egyptian rulers gave place to Persian, Persian to the successors of Alexander the Great, who gave place in turn to Rome. So thoroughly was the prophecy of Ezekiel fulfilled Ezekiel 29:14-15.


 
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