Isaiah:19

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* The burden of Egypt . Behold the Lord will ascend upon a swift cloud , and will enter into Egypt , and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence , and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst thereof . * And I will set the Egyptians to fight against the Egyptians : and they shall fight brother against brother , and friend against friend , city against city , kingdom against kingdom . * And the spirit of Egypt shall be broken in the bowels thereof , and I will cast down their counsel : and they shall consult their idols , and their diviners , and their wizards , and soothsayers . * And I will deliver Egypt into the hand of cruel masters , and a strong king shall rule over them , saith the Lord the God of hosts . * And the water of the sea shall be dried up , and the river shall be wasted and dry . * And the rivers shall fail : the streams of the banks shall be diminished , and be dried up . The reed and the bulrush shall wither away . * The channel of the river shall be laid bare from its fountain , and every thing sown by the water shall be dried up , it shall wither away , and shall be no more . * The fishers also shall mourn , and all that cast a hook into the river shall lament , and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish away . * They shall be confounded that wrought in flax , combing and weaving fine linen . * And its watery places shall be dry , all they shall mourn that made pools to take fishes . * The princes of Tanis are become fools , the wise counsellors of Pharao have given foolish counsel : how will you say to Pharao : I am the son of the wise , the son of ancient kings ? * Where are now thy wise men ? let them tell thee , and shew what the Lord of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt . * The princes of Tanis are become fools , the princes of Memphis are gone astray , they have deceived Egypt , the stay of the people thereof . * The Lord hath mingled in the midst thereof the spirit of giddiness : and they have caused Egypt to err in all its works , as a drunken man staggereth and vomiteth . * And there shall be no work for Egypt , to make head or tail , him that bendeth down , or that holdeth back . * In that day Egypt shall be like unto women , and they shall be amazed , and afraid , because of the moving of the hand of the Lord of hosts , which he shall move over it . * And the land of Juda shall be a terror to Egypt : every one that shall remember it shall tremble because of the counsel of the Lord of hosts , which he hath determined concerning it . * In that day there shall be five cities in the land of Egypt , speaking the language of Chanaan , and swearing by the Lord of hosts : one shall be called the city of the sun . * In that day there shall be an altar of the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt , and a monument of the Lord at the borders thereof : * It shall be for a sign , and for a testimony to the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt . For they shall cry to the Lord because of the oppressor , and he shall send them a Saviour and a defender to deliver them . * And the Lord shall be known by Egypt , and the Egyptians shall know the Lord in that day , and shall worship him with sacrifices and offerings : and they shall make vows to the Lord , and per - form them . * And the Lord shall strike Egypt with a scourge , and shall heal it , and they shall return to the Lord , and he shall be pacified towards them , and heal them . * In that day there shall be a way from Egypt to the Assyrians , and the Assyrian shall enter into Egypt , and the Egyptian to the Assyrians , and the Egyptians shall serve the Assyrian . * In that day shall Israel be the third to the Egyptian and the Assyrian : a blessing in the midst of the land , * Which the Lord of hosts hath blessed , saying : Blessed be my people of Egypt , and the work of my hands to the Assyrian : but Israel is my inheritance .

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