Isaiah - 19

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.