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Judgment on Egypt and Future Salvation

Isaiah 19:1-25

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Chapter 19
1 Oracle concerning Egypt. See, the LORD rides on a swift cloud and comes to Egypt, and the idols of Egypt quiver before him, and the heart of Egypt melts in its midst. 2 And I will set strife in Egypt against Egypt, and they will fight, man against his brother and man against his companion, city against city, kingdom against kingdom. 3 The spirit of Egypt will empty out in its midst, and it will swallow its counsel. And they will seek to worthless idols and to the spirits of the dead and to the mediums and to the familiar spirits. 4 And I will deliver Egypt into the hand of harsh lords, and a strong king will rule over them—the utterance of the LORD of Hosts. 5 And the waters will fail from the sea, and the River will be wasted and dried up. 6 They will forsake the rivers; the rivers will grow thin and dry up; the canals of Egypt, reed and rush, have withered. 7 Nakedness upon the Nile, upon the mouth of the Nile, and every seed of the Nile will dry up—driven away and gone. 8 And the fishermen will mourn, all who cast line into the Nile, and those who spread dragnet upon the face of the waters will languish. 9 And the servants of linens, the combers, and the weavers of white linen are ashamed. 10 They will crush all her intakes, makers of hired pond-soul. 11 Surely, the rulers of Zoan are fools, the wise counselors of Pharaoh: their counsel is foolish. How do you say to Pharaoh, "I am a son of the wise, a son of kings of the east"? 12 Where then are your wise men, that they tell you and know what the LORD of hosts has counseled against Egypt? 13 The rulers of Zoan have become foolish, the rulers of Noph have been deceived. They have led Egypt astray, the turnings of its tribes. 14 The LORD has mixed a wind of confusions within it, and they have caused Egypt to stray in all its cultic as the staggering of a drunkard in his vomit. 15 And there will not be for Egypt any deed that head or tail, palm branch or reed, will do. 16 In that day Egypt will be like women and will tremble—a trembling at the face of the waving of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he is waving over it. 17 And the land of Judah will be a terror to Egypt; everyone who mentions it will fear because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts which he is counseling against it. 18 On that day there shall be five cities in the land of Egypt speaking the language of Canaan and swearing to the LORD of hosts; one will be called the City of Destruction. 19 On that day there will be an altar for the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at its boundary for the LORD. 20 And it will be a sign and a witness to the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt, for they will cry out to the LORD because of oppressors, and he will send them a savior and mighty one, and he will deliver them. 21 And the LORD will be known to Egypt, and Egypt will know the LORD on that day, and they will serve with sacrifice and offering; they will vow a vow to the LORD and pay it. 22 And the LORD will strike Egypt, striking and healing, and they will return to the LORD, and he will be entreated for them and heal them. 23 On that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and Assyria comes into Egypt and Egypt into Assyria, and Egypt serves Assyria. 24 On that day Israel will be a third to Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth. 25 whom the LORD of hosts has blessed, saying, "Blessed be my people Egypt, and the work of my hands Assyria, and my inheritance Israel."