These paragraphs can be read to advantage as part of 2 Ne. 20, where the destruction of the army of Sennacherib is foretold. God brought the Assyrian to the mountains of Judah, for his defeat and destruction, and the liberation of his people.
But the prophetic word does not finish the history of Assyria, nor of Egypt, with descriptions of destruction. The Prophet Isaiah unveils this view of the future:
"And the Lord shall smite Egypt; he shall smite and heal it, and they shall return even to the Lord, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them. In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians. In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land: Whom the Lord of Hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria, the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance." (Is. 19:22-25)
If we read "Mesopotamia," or, "Irak," instead of "Assyria," and remember that Palestine was recognized as the homeland of the Jews; that Egypt obtained a liberal measure of political freedom, and that a considerable portion of ancient Assyria, under the name of Irak, or, Mesopotamia, was created an independent state, by the treaty of Versailles June 28, 1919, all under the mandate of Great Britain, we may be justified in looking forward to further developments along the lines here indicated. God recognizes, in this prophecy, the Egyptians as his people, in its resurrected existence, as his creation, and Israel as his inheritance.