| Chapter
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.
Matt 24:7
Mark 13:8
Luke 21:10
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| 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. |
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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. |
