19Isaiah 19

1The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rides on 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 middle of it.Select Isaiah 19:1

2And 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.Select Isaiah 19:2

3And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the middle 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.Select Isaiah 19:3

4And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, says the Lord, the LORD of hosts.Select Isaiah 19:4

5And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.Select Isaiah 19:5

6And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defense shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.Select Isaiah 19:6

7The 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.Select Isaiah 19:7

8The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets on the waters shall languish.Select Isaiah 19:8

9Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.Select Isaiah 19:9

10And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish. ¶Select Isaiah 19:10

11Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say you to Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?Select Isaiah 19:11

12Where are they? where are your wise men? and let them tell you now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts has purposed on Egypt.Select Isaiah 19:12

13The 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.Select Isaiah 19:13

14The LORD has mingled a perverse spirit in the middle thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.Select Isaiah 19:14

15Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.Select Isaiah 19:15

16In that day shall Egypt be like to women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shakes over it.Select Isaiah 19:16

17And the land of Judah shall be a terror to Egypt, every one that makes mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he has determined against it. ¶Select Isaiah 19:17

18In 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.Select Isaiah 19:18

19In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the middle of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD.Select Isaiah 19:19

20And it shall be for a sign and for a witness to the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry to the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a savior, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.Select Isaiah 19:20

21And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yes, they shall vow a vow to the LORD, and perform it.Select Isaiah 19:21

22And 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. ¶Select Isaiah 19:22

23In 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.Select Isaiah 19:23

24In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the middle of the land:Select Isaiah 19:24

25Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.Select Isaiah 19:25