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CHAPTER 19.
THE burden of Egypt. Behold the Lord will ascend upon a swift cloud, and
will enter into Egypt, and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence,
and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst thereof.
2 And I will set the Egyptians to fight against the
Egyptians: and they shall fight brother against brother, and friend against
friend, city against city, kingdom against kingdom.
3 And the spirit of Egypt shall be broken in the bowels
thereof, and I will cast down their counsel: and they shall consult their
idols, and their diviners, and their wizards, and soothsayers.
4 And I will deliver Egypt into the hand of cruel
masters, and a strong king shall rule over them, saith the Lord the God of
hosts.
5 And the water of the sea shall be dried up, and the
river shall be wasted and dry.
6 And the rivers shall fail: the streams of the banks
shall be diminished, and be dried up. The reed and the bulrush shall wither
away.
7 The channel of the river shall be laid bare from its
fountain, and every thing sown by the water shall be dried up, it shall wither
away, and shall be no more.
8 The fishers also shall mourn, and all that cast a
hook into the river shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters
shall languish away.
9 They shall be confounded that wrought in flax,
combing and weaving fine linen.
10 And its watery places shall be dry, all they shall
mourn that made pools to take fishes.
11 The princes of Tanis are become fools, the wise
counsellors of Pharao have given foolish counsel: how will you say to Pharao: I
am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
12 Where are now thy wise men? let them tell thee, and
shew what the Lord of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.
13 The princes of Tanis are become fools, the princes
of Memphis are gone astray, they have deceived Egypt, the stay of the people
thereof.
14 The Lord hath mingled in the midst thereof the spirit
of giddiness: and they have caused Egypt to err in all its works, as a drunken
man staggereth and vomiteth.
15 And there shall be no work for Egypt, to make head
or tail, him that bendeth down, or that holdeth back.
16 In that day Egypt shall be like unto women, and they
shall be amazed, and afraid, because of the moving of the hand of the Lord of
hosts, which he shall move over it.
17 And the land of Juda shall be a terror to Egypt:
every one that shall remember it shall tremble because of the counsel of the
Lord of hosts, which he hath determined concerning it.
18 In that day there shall be five cities in the land
of Egypt, speaking the language of Chanaan, and swearing by the Lord of hosts:
one shall be called the city of the sun.
19 In that day there shall be an altar of the Lord in
the midst of the land of Egypt, and a monument of the Lord at the borders
thereof:
20 It shall be for a sign, and for a testimony to the
Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt. For they shall cry to the Lord because of
the oppressor, and he shall send them a Saviour and a defender to deliver them.
21 And the Lord shall be known by Egypt, and the
Egyptians shall know the Lord in that day, and shall worship him with
sacrifices and offerings: and they shall make vows to the Lord, and per- form
them.
22 And the Lord shall strike Egypt with a scourge, and
shall heal it, and they shall return to the Lord, and he shall be pacified
towards them, and heal them.
23 In that day there shall be a way from Egypt to the
Assyrians, and the Assyrian shall enter into Egypt, and the Egyptian to the
Assyrians, and the Egyptians shall serve the Assyrian.
24 In that day shall Israel be the third to the
Egyptian and the Assyrian: a blessing in the midst of the land,
25 Which the Lord of hosts hath blessed, saying:
Blessed be my people of Egypt, and the work of my hands to the Assyrian: but
Israel is my inheritance.
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