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Chapter
19
- 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.
- 19:2
- 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.
- 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.
- 19:4
- 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.
- 19:5
- And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall
be wasted and dried up.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 19:9
- Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave
networks, shall be confounded.
- 19:10
- And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that
make sluices and ponds for fish.
- 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?
- 19:12
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 19:15
- Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head
or tail, branch or rush, may do.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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:
- 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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