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Isaiah 19
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| 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. |
 (19:1)
"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."
God will ride in on a cloud and scare the hell out of the Egyptians.
(19:2-4) The God of Peace will set Egyptian against Egyptian, brother against
brother, and kingdom against kingdom. Then he'll make the survivors heed the
counsel of "wizards," and subject them to a "cruel lord."
(19:2) "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."
(19:3) "They shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them
that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards."
(19:4) "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."
(19:5) "The waters shall
fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up."
The river of Egypt (identified as the Nile
in RSV) shall dry up.
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| 19:2
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.
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| 19:3
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.
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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.
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| 19:5
And the waters shall
fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
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| 19:6
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.
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| 19:7
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.
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| 19:8
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.
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| 19:9
Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall
be confounded. |
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| 19:10
And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices
and ponds for fish. |
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| 19:11
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? |
 (19:14) "The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof:
they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit."
God sends a "perverse spirit" among the Egyptians and causes them to err "as a drunken man staggereth in
his vomit."
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(19:16) "Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because
the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shaketh over it."
Egypt will become weakened and frightened "like unto women" when God shakes his hand over it.
(19:17-21) More stupid Egypt prophecies.
(19:17) "The land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt."
Judah never invaded Egypt and was never a military threat to Egypt.
(19:18) "In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts."
There shall be five cities in Egypt that speak the Canaanite language. But that language was never
spoken in Egypt, and it is extinct now.
(19:19-21) These verses predict that the Egyptians
will worship the Lord (Yahweh) with sacrifices and offerings. But Judaism has
never been an important religion in Egypt.
(19:19) "In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt."
(19:21) "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."
(19:23-24) These verses predict that there will be an
alliance between Egypt, Israel, and Assyria. But there has never been any such alliance, and
it's unlikely that it ever will since Assyria no longer exists.
(19:23) "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."
(19:24) "In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land."
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| 19:12
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.
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| 19:13
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.
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| 19:14
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.
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Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch
or rush, may do.
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| 19:16
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.
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| 19:17 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.
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| 19:18
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.
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| 19:19
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.
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| 19:20
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.
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| 19:21
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.
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| 19:22
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.
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| 19:23
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.
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| 19:24
In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a
blessing in the midst of the land:
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| 19:25
Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people,
and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
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