Ezekiel 29:5
And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven.
Ezekiel 29:5 was spoken six hundred years before Christ concerning Egypt while it was struggling with Babylon for supremacy in world empire. It belongs to God's prophecy of judgment and ruin against Egypt, describing its ruin and its being brought low and abased. It declares the certain fate that will come upon Pharaoh and his host.
Pharaoh and the people represented by the fish are left dead in the wilderness and open fields, unburied and not gathered together. Its people and wealth are left exposed rather than gathered or restored. They are given as meat to the beasts of the field and the fowls of heaven and are uneaten by humans, becoming food for wild animals and birds. Egypt, once among the greatest empires, would be brought low and abased and made the basest of the kingdoms. It would never again lift itself above the nations nor rule over the nations nor rise again among them, with its foundations broken down, those upholding it fallen, and the pride of its power brought down. It would be made desolate amid desolate countries with its cities among wasted cities, its idols destroyed and its images caused to cease from Memphis with no more a prince from the land, and with fire set in Zoan and judgments executed upon No.
The judgment was fulfilled literally in Egypt's invasion, conquest, and subjection to successive foreign powers. The prophecy about Egypt was predicted to be fulfilled through England taking complete control of the country.