Isaiah 19
The Oracle concerning
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The burden of Egypt. Jer. 46.2-26 · Ezek.
29.1--32.32
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.
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And I will set 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.
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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.
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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.
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And the waters shall fail from the sea,
and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
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And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defense shall be emptied and dried up: the
reeds and flags shall wither.
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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.
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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.
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Moreover they that work in fine flax, and
they that weave networks, shall be confounded.
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And they shall be broken in the purposes
thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.
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Surely the princes of Zo'an are fools, the counsel of the wise counselors of Pharaoh is become
brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise,
the son of ancient kings?
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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.
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The princes of Zo'an are become fools,
the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.
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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.
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Neither shall there be any work
for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In that day shall Israel be the third
with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of
the land:
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whom the LORD of
hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and
Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine
inheritance.
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