Isaiah 19
1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, Jehovah rideth upon a swift cloud, and cometh
unto Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall tremble at his presence; and the heart
of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
2 And I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight
every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbor; city against
city, [and] kingdom against kingdom.
3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst of it; and I will destroy the
counsel thereof: and they shall seek unto the idols, and to the charmers, and to
them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
4 And I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce
king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.
5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and
become dry.
6 And the rivers shall become foul; the streams of Egypt shall be diminished and
dried up; the reeds and flags shall wither away.
7 The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and all the sown fields of
the Nile, shall become dry, be driven away, and be no more.
8 And the fishers shall lament, and all they that cast angle into the Nile shall
mourn, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.
9 Moreover they that work in combed flax, and they that weave white cloth, shall
be confounded.
10 And the pillars [of Egypt] shall be broken in pieces; all they that work for
hire [shall be] grieved in soul.
11 The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the counsel of the wisest
counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son
of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
12 Where then are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now; and let them know
what Jehovah of hosts hath purposed concerning Egypt.
13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Memphis are deceived;
they have caused Egypt to go astray, that are the corner-stone of her tribes.
14 Jehovah hath mingled a spirit of perverseness in the midst of her; and they
have caused Egypt to go astray in every work thereof, as a drunken man
staggereth in his vomit.
15 Neither shall there be for Egypt any work, which head or tail, palm-branch or
rush, may do.
16 In that day shall the Egyptians be like unto women; and they shall tremble
and fear because of the shaking of the hand of Jehovah of hosts, which he
shaketh over them.
17 And the land of Judah shall become a terror unto Egypt; every one to whom
mention is made thereof shall be afraid, because of the purpose of Jehovah of
hosts, which he purposeth against it.
18 In that day there shall be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the
language of Canaan, and swear to Jehovah of hosts; one shall be called The city
of destruction.
19 In that day shall there be an altar to Jehovah in the midst of the land of
Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to Jehovah.
20 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto Jehovah of hosts in the
land of Egypt; for they shall cry unto Jehovah because of oppressors, and he
will send them a saviour, and a defender, and he will deliver them.
21 And Jehovah shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know Jehovah in
that day; yea, they shall worship with sacrifice and oblation, and shall vow a
vow unto Jehovah, and shall perform it.
22 And Jehovah will smite Egypt, smiting and healing; and they shall return unto
Jehovah, and he will be entreated of them, and will heal them.
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 worship with the Assyrians.
24 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing
in the midst of the earth;
25 for that Jehovah of hosts hath blessed them, saying, Blessed be Egypt my
people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.