Ezekiel 30:17-18

30:17 The young men of On and of Pi-beseth ¹  will die by the sword;

and the cities will go ²  into captivity.

30:18 In Tahpanhes the day will be dark ³ 

when I break the yoke of Egypt there.

Her confident pride will cease within her;

a cloud will cover her, and her daughters will go into captivity.

Ezekiel 30:26

30:26 I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among foreign countries. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

Ezekiel 29:12-13

29:12 I will turn the land of Egypt into a desolation in the midst of desolate lands; for forty years her cities will lie desolate in the midst of ruined cities. I will scatter Egypt among the nations and disperse them among foreign countries.

29:13 “‘For this is what the sovereign Lord says: At the end of forty years ⁴  I will gather Egypt from the peoples where they were scattered.

¹ sn On and Pi-beseth are generally identified with the Egyptian cities of Heliopolis and Bubastis.

² tn Heb “they will go.” The pronoun and verb are feminine plural, indicating that the cities just mentioned are the antecedent of the pronoun and the subject of the verb. The translation makes this clear by stating the subject as “the cities.”

³ sn In Zeph 1:15 darkness is associated with the day of the Lord.

⁴ sn In Ezek 4:4-8 it was said that the house of Judah would suffer forty years.