Isaiah 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.
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.
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.
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.
5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
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.
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.
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.
9 Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.
10 And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.
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?
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.
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.
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.
15 Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 intreated of them, and shall 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 serve with the Assyrians.
24 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land:
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.
Cross-references
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- 1Exo 12:12, Rev 1:7, Ezk 30:13, Jol 3:19, Jos 2:11, Jer 51:44, Ezk 29:1–21, Isa 13:1
- 2Jdg 7:22, 1Sa 14:20, Mat 10:36, Ezk 38:21, Rev 17:12–17, Mat 12:25, Mat 10:21, 2Ch 20:22–23
- 3Isa 8:19, Dan 2:2, 1Ch 10:13, Isa 44:25, Pro 21:30, Job 5:12–13, Isa 14:27, Dan 4:6–7
- 4Isa 20:4, Ezk 29:19, Jer 46:26, Isa 19:2, 1Sa 23:7, Psa 31:8
- 5Jer 51:36, Ezk 30:12, Zec 14:18, Zec 10:11
- 6Isa 37:25, Exo 7:18, Exo 2:3, 2Ki 19:24, Job 8:11, Isa 15:6, Isa 18:2
- 7Jol 1:17–18, Isa 23:3, Jer 14:4, Ezk 19:13, Isa 32:20
- 8Hab 1:15, Ezk 47:10, Num 11:5, Exo 7:21
- 9Ezk 27:7, Pro 7:16, 1Ki 10:28
- 10Exo 8:5, Exo 7:19, Deu 11:10
- 11Num 13:22, Isa 30:4, Psa 78:43, Act 7:22, 1Ki 4:30, Gen 41:38–39, Psa 78:12, Jer 10:14
- 121Co 1:20, Isa 47:10–13, Rom 9:17, Isa 14:24, Isa 44:7, Isa 40:13–14, Job 11:6–7, Isa 5:21
- 13Ezk 30:13, Jer 2:16, Jer 46:19, Zec 10:4, Jer 46:14, Isa 19:11, Rom 1:22, 1Sa 14:38
- 142Th 2:11, 1Ki 22:20–23, Ezk 14:7–9, Job 12:25, Jer 25:27, Isa 47:10–11, Isa 29:9–10, Isa 19:2
- 15Isa 9:14–15, 1Th 4:11–12, Psa 128:2, Pro 14:23, Hab 3:17, Hag 1:11
- 16Nam 3:13, Jer 51:30, Isa 11:15, Jer 50:37, Jer 30:5–7, Zec 2:9, Isa 10:32, Isa 30:17
- 17Isa 14:24, Dan 4:35, Jer 43:8–13, Isa 36:1, Jer 25:19, Jer 25:27–31, Ezk 29:6–7, Isa 20:2–5
- 18Zep 3:9, Isa 19:21, Zec 2:11, Jer 12:16, Isa 11:11, Isa 45:23–24, Isa 19:19, Isa 2:11
- 19Gen 28:18, Jos 22:10, Exo 24:4, Jos 22:26, Gen 12:7, Zec 6:15, Isa 66:23, Heb 13:10
- 20Psa 50:15, Tit 2:13, Luk 2:11, Isa 45:21–22, Exo 3:7, Isa 37:36, Isa 19:4, Jos 24:26–27
- 21Mal 1:11, Isa 11:9, Hab 2:14, Psa 67:2, Isa 55:5, Isa 44:5, Zep 3:10, 1Ki 8:43
- 22Heb 12:11, Deu 32:39, Hos 14:1, Hos 5:15, Isa 45:14, Amo 4:6–12, Job 5:18, Hos 6:2
- 23Isa 11:16, Isa 27:13, Eph 2:18–22, Isa 40:3–5, Eph 3:6–8, Isa 35:8–10
- 24Isa 65:8, Gen 12:2, Isa 65:22, Deu 32:43, Isa 66:19–21, Isa 6:13, Isa 66:12, Zec 8:13
- 25Isa 29:23, Hos 2:23, Rom 9:24–25, Psa 115:15, Psa 138:8, Deu 32:9, Isa 61:9, Num 6:27