Isaiah 19

The ^aburden of ^bEgypt.

Behold, ^cthe Lord rideth upon a ^dswift cloud, and shall come into Egypt:

And ^dthe idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence,

And ^ethe heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.

²And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians:

And they shall fight every one against his brother, and ^fevery one against his neighbour;

City against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

³And 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 ^gthem that have familiar spirits, and to ^gthe wizards.

⁴And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of ^ha cruel lord;

And ^ha fierce king shall rule over them,

Saith ⁱthe Lord, the Lord of hosts.

⁵And the waters shall ^jfail from ^kthe sea,

And ^lthe river ^mshall be wasted and dried up.

⁶And they shall turn the rivers far away;

And ⁿthe brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up:

The reeds and ^oflags shall ^pwither.

⁷The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks,

And every thing sown by the brooks,

Shall wither, ^ppbe driven away, and be no more.

^8qThe fishers also shall mourn,

And all they that cast ^rangle into the brooks shall lament,

And they that spread nets upon the waters ^sshall languish.

⁹Moreover they that work in ^tfine flax,

And they that weave networks, shall be confounded.

¹⁰And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof,

All that make sluces and ponds for fish.

¹¹Surely the princes of ^uZoan are fools,

The counsel of the wise counsellers of Pharaoh ^vis become brutish:

How say ye unto Pharaoh, ^vvI am the son of the wise,

^wThe son of ancient kings?

^12xWhere 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.

¹³The princes of ^uZoan are become fools,

^xThe princes of ^yNoph are deceived;

They have also ^zseduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.

¹⁴The Lord hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof:

And they have ^zcaused Egypt to err in every work thereof,

^aAs a drunken man ^zstaggereth in his vomit.

¹⁵Neither shall there be any work for Egypt,

Which ^bthe head or tail, ^bbranch or rush, may do.

^16cIn that day shall Egypt ^dbe like unto women:

And it shall be afraid and fear

Because of ^ethe shaking of the hand of the Lord of hosts,

^eWhich he shaketh over it.

¹⁷And 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.

^18cIn that day shall ^ffive cities in the land of Egypt

^gSpeak the language of Canaan,

And swear to the Lord of hosts:

One shall be called, The city of ⁱdestruction.

^19cIn that day shall there be ^kan altar to the Lord ^lin the midst of the land of Egypt,

And ^ka pillar at the border thereof to the Lord.

²⁰And it shall be for a sign and ^mfor a witness unto the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt:

For ⁿthey shall cry unto the Lord because of the oppressors,

And he shall send them ^noa saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.

²¹And the Lord shall be known to Egypt,

And ^lthe Egyptians shall know the Lord ^cin that day,

And shall do sacrifice and ^poblation;

Yea, ^qthey shall vow a vow unto the Lord, and perform it.

²²And the Lord shall smite Egypt: ^rhe shall smite and heal it:

And they shall return even to the Lord, and ^she shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them.

^23cIn that day ^tshall 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 ^uwith the Assyrians.

^24cIn that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria,

Even a blessing in the midst of the land:

²⁵Whom the Lord of hosts shall bless, saying,

Blessed be Egypt ^xmy people,

And Assyria ^ythe work of my hands,

And Israel ^zmine inheritance.

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