ISA-19:1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a
swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt
shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall
melt in the midst of it.
ISA-19:2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and
they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one
against his neighbour; city against city, [and] kingdom against
kingdom.
ISA-19:3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof;
and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to
the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar
spirits, and to the wizards.
ISA-19:4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a
cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the
Lord, the LORD of hosts.
ISA-19:5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river
shall be wasted and dried up.
ISA-19:6 And they shall turn the rivers far away; [and] the
brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and
flags shall wither.
ISA-19:7 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the
brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be
driven away, and be no [more].
ISA-19:8 The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast
angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets
upon the waters shall languish.
ISA-19:9 Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that
weave networks, shall be confounded.
ISA-19:10 And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all
that make sluices [and] ponds for fish.
ISA-19:11 Surely the princes of Zoan [are] fools, the counsel of
the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye
unto Pharaoh, I [am] the son of the wise, the son of ancient
kings?
ISA-19:12 Where [are] they? where [are] thy wise [men]? and let
them tell thee now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts
hath purposed upon Egypt.
ISA-19:13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of
Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, [even they that
are] the stay of the tribes thereof.
ISA-19:14 The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst
thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof,
as a drunken [man] staggereth in his vomit.
ISA-19:15 Neither shall there be [any] work for Egypt, which the
head or tail, branch or rush, may do.
ISA-19:16 In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it
shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of
the LORD of hosts, which he shaketh over it.
ISA-19:17 And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt,
every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself,
because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath
determined against it.
ISA-19:18 In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt
speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts;
one shall be called, The city of destruction.
ISA-19:19 In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the
midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof
to the LORD.
ISA-19:20 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the
LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the
LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour,
and a great one, and he shall deliver them.
ISA-19:21 And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the
Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day, and shall do
sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the LORD,
and perform [it].
ISA-19:22 And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and
heal [it]: and they shall return [even] to the LORD, and he
shall be entreated of them, and shall heal them.
ISA-19:23 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.
ISA-19:24 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and
with Assyria, [even] a blessing in the midst of the land:
ISA-19:25 Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed
[be] Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and
Israel mine inheritance. 1
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