Ezekiel 29:11
New International Version
The foot of neither man nor beast will pass through it; no one will live there for forty years.

New Living Translation
For forty years not a soul will pass that way, neither people nor animals. It will be completely uninhabited.

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.

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

King James Bible
No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited 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 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.

NASB 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.

NASB 1977
“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.

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.

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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
No human foot will pass through it, and no animal foot will pass through it. It will be uninhabited for 40 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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
A foot of a son of man shall not cross in it, neither a hoof of cattle, and you shall not inhabit it for forty years

Brenton Septuagint Translation
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.

Contemporary English Version
No human or animal will even dare travel through Egypt, because no sign of life will be found there for 40 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.

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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
No human or animal will walk through it, and no one will live there for 40 years.

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

International Standard Version
Neither man nor beast will walk through that area. It won't even be inhabited for 40 years.

JPS Tanakh 1917
No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.

Literal Standard Version
A foot of man does not pass over into it, | Indeed, the foot of beast does not pass into it, | Nor is it inhabited forty years.

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

New American Bible
No foot shall pass through it, no human being or beast cross it; it will remain uninhabited for forty years.

NET Bible
No human foot will pass through it, and no animal's foot will pass through it; it will be uninhabited for forty years.

New Revised Standard Version
No human foot shall pass through it, and no animal foot shall pass through it; it shall be uninhabited forty years.

New Heart 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.

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.

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.

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.

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Context
The Desolation of Egypt
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. 11No foot of man or beast will pass through, and it will be uninhabited for forty years. 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.…

Cross References
Isaiah 34:10
It will not be quenched--day or night. Its smoke will ascend forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate; no one will ever again pass through it.

Jeremiah 9:10
I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they have gone away.

Jeremiah 43:11
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.

Jeremiah 43:12
I will kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt, and Nebuchadnezzar will burn those temples and take their gods as captives. So he will wrap himself with the land of Egypt as a shepherd wraps himself in his garment, and he will depart from there unscathed.

Jeremiah 46:19
Pack your bags for exile, O daughter dwelling in Egypt! For Memphis will be laid waste, destroyed and uninhabited.

Ezekiel 32:13
I will slaughter all her cattle beside the abundant waters. No human foot will muddy them again, and no cattle hooves will disturb them.


Treasury of Scripture

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

foot of man

Ezekiel 20:10-13
Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness…

Ezekiel 31:12
And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.

Ezekiel 32:13
I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the great waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them.

forty

2 Chronicles 36:21
To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.

Isaiah 23:15,17
And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot…

Jeremiah 25:11,12
And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years…

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Ezekiel 29
1. The judgment of Pharaoh for his treachery to Israel
8. The desolation of Egypt
13. The restoration thereof after forty years
17. Egypt the reward of Nebuchadnezzar
21. Israel shall be restored














(11) Neither shall it be inhabited forty years.--In Ezekiel 29:9-12 a state of desolation is predicted for Egypt, which, if understood in the literal sense of the words, has certainly never been fulfilled. In Ezekiel 29:9 it is said that it "shall be desolate and waste," and this is repeated with emphasis in Ezekiel 29:10; while in Ezekiel 29:11 it is declared that neither foot of man nor foot of beast shall pass through it. There is also a difficulty in regard to the time of "forty years," mentioned in Ezekiel 29:11-13. No such definite period can be made out from history. The two difficulties go together, and the former is explained by the latter. It has already been seen in Ezekiel 4:6 that the prophet represents the calamity of Judah in the historic terms of their former suffering in the wilderness, without thereby intending either any specific time or any precise repetition of the same troubles they had then experienced. He does the same thing here in regard to Egypt. The people are to pass into a condition like that of the Israelites in the wilderness, in which they were to endure the judgment of God upon their sins. This is expressed, after the manner of Ezekiel, in strong concrete terms, the literal fulfilment of which was neither intended nor expected. . . . Verse 11. - Neither shall it be inhabited forty years. It need hardly be said that history reveals no such period of devastation. Nor, indeed, would anything but the most prosaic literalism justify us in looking for it. We are dealing with the language of a poet-prophet, which is naturally that of hyperbole, and so the "forty years" stand, as, perhaps, elsewhere (Judges 3:11; Judges 5:31, etc.), for a period of undefined duration, and the picture of a land on which no man or beast sets foot for that of a time of desolation, and consequent cessation of all the customary traffic along the Nile. Such a period, there is reason to believe, did follow on the conquests of Nebuchadnezzar. It is implied in Vers. 17-21, which carry us to a date seventeen years later than that of the verse with which we are now dealing; and also in Jeremiah 43:10-12. Josephus ('Contra Apion,' 1:20) speaks of Nebuchadnezzar as having invaded Libya. The reign of Amasis, which followed on the deposition of Hophra, was one of general prosperity as regards commerce and culture, but Egypt ceased to be one of the great world-powers after the time of Nebuchadnezzar and fell easily into the hands of the Persians under Cambyses. It is noticeable that Ezekiel does not, like Isaiah (Isaiah 19:18-25), connect the future of Egypt with any Messianic expectations.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
No
לֹ֤א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

foot
רֶ֣גֶל (re·ḡel)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 7272: A foot, a step, the pudenda

of man
אָדָ֔ם (’ā·ḏām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 120: Ruddy, a human being

[or]
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

beast
בְּהֵמָ֖ה (bə·hê·māh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 929: A dumb beast, any large quadruped, animal

will pass
תַעֲבָר־ (ṯa·‘ă·ḇār-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 5674: To pass over, through, or by, pass on

through,
בָּהּ֙ (bāh)
Preposition | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew

and
וְלֹ֥א (wə·lō)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

it will be uninhabited
תֵשֵׁ֖ב (ṯê·šêḇ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 3427: To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry

for forty
אַרְבָּעִ֥ים (’ar·bā·‘îm)
Number - common plural
Strong's 705: Forty

years.
שָׁנָֽה׃ (šā·nāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8141: A year


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