Isaiah:19-20

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* The burden against Egypt : Behold , the LORD rides on a swift cloud and comes into Egypt . And the idols of Egypt shall tremble at His presence , and the heart of Egypt shall melt in its midst . * And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians ; and they shall fight each man against his brother , and each against his neighbor ; city against city , kingdom against kingdom . * And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst of it , and I will destroy its wisdom . And they shall seek to idols , and to the enchanters , and to the mediums , and to the future-tellers . * And I will shut up Egypt into the hand of a cruel lord ; and a fierce king shall rule over them , says the Lord , The LORD of hosts . * And the waters shall fail from the sea , and the river shall fail and dry up . * And rivers shall be fouled ; the Nile of Egypt will languish and dry up ; the reed and the rush shall decay . * Bare places shall be at the Nile , by the mouth of the Nile , and everything sown by the Nile shall dry up , driven away , and be no [more ]. * The fishermen also shall mourn , and all who drop a hook into the Nile shall wail , and those who spread nets on the waters shall droop . * And the workers in fine flax , and the weavers of white cloth shall be ashamed . * And her foundations shall be broken , and all who make wages shall be sad of soul . * Surely the rulers of Zoan [are ] fools , the counsel of the wise counselors of Pharaoh has become brutish . How do you say to Pharaoh , I [am ] the son of the wise , the son of ancient kings ? * Where [are ] they ? Where [are ] your wise men ? And let them tell you now , and let them know what Jehovah of hosts has planned against Egypt . * The rulers of Zoan have become fools , the rulers of Noph are deceived ; they have also caused Egypt to go astray , the chief of her tribes . * The LORD has mixed a perverse spirit in its midst ; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in all its work , like a drunkard staggers in his vomit . * And Egypt shall have no work that the head or tail , branch or rush , may do . * In that day Egypt shall be like 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 . * And the land of Judah shall be a terror to Egypt ; everyone who mentions it shall be afraid toward it , because of the purpose of Jehovah of hosts , which He has purposed against it . * In that day five cities in the land of Egypt shall speak the language of Canaan and swear to Jehovah of hosts ; one shall be called the City of Ruin . * In that day there shall be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt , and a pillar at its border to the LORD . * And it shall be for a sign and for a witness to Jehovah of hosts in the land of Egypt . For they shall cry to the LORD because of the oppressors , and He shall send them a deliverer , and a great one , and will deliver them . * And the LORD shall be known to Egypt , and Egypt shall know the LORD in that day , and shall offer sacrifice and offering ; and vow a vow to the LORD , and repay . * And the LORD shall strike Egypt ; He shall strike and heal ; and they shall return to the LORD , and He shall hear them and shall heal them . * In that day there shall be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria , and Assyria shall come into Egypt , and Egypt into Assyria , and Egypt shall serve with Assyria . * In that day Israel shall be the third with Egypt and with Assyria , a blessing in the midst of the land ; * whom Jehovah of hosts shall bless , saying , Blessed [be ] My people Egypt , and Assyria the work of My hands , and Israel My inheritance . * In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod , when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him , and fought against Ashdod and took it ; * at that time the LORD spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz , saying , Go and take the sackcloth off your loins , and take your shoe off your foot . And he did so , walking naked and barefoot . * And the LORD said , Just as My servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years , a sign and wonder on Egypt and on Ethiopia ; * so shall the king of Assyria lead away Egypt 's prisoners , and the Ethiopian exiles , young and old , naked and barefoot , even with uncovered buttocks , [to ] the shame of Egypt . * And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their hope , and of Egypt their glory . * And he who lives in this coast shall say in that day , Behold , this [has become ] of our hope [to ] which we fled for help there , to be delivered from before the king of Assyria ; and , How shall we escape ? * The burden against the desert of the sea : As tempests in the south pass , it comes from the desert , from a terrible land .

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