“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.” (Isaiah 19:1-25 AV)