King James VersionIsaiah19

Isaiah

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. 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. 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.