The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Isaiah 19
1 The burden of Egypt.
“Behold, Yahweh rides on a swift cloud,
and comes to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will
tremble at his presence; and the heart of
Egypt will melt within it.
2 I will stir up the Egyptians against the
Egyptians, and they will fight everyone
against his brother, and everyone against
his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
3 The spirit of the Egyptians will fail
within them. I will destroy their counsel.
They will seek the idols, the charmers,
those who have familiar spirits, and the
wizards.
4 I will give over the Egyptians into the
hand of a cruel lord. A fierce king will
rule over them,” says the Lord, Yahweh of
Armies.
5 The waters will fail from the sea, and
the river will be wasted and become dry.
6 The rivers will become foul. The
streams of Egypt will be diminished and
dried up. The reeds and flags will wither
away.
7 The meadows by the Nile, by the brink
of the Nile, and all the sown fields of the
Nile, will become dry, be driven away, and
be no more.
8 The fishermen will lament, and all
those who fish in the Nile will mourn, and
those who spread nets on the waters will
languish.
9 Moreover those who work in combed
flax, and those who weave white cloth, will
be confounded.
10 The pillars will be brokeninpieces. All
those who work for hire will be grieved in
soul.
11 The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish.
The counsel of the wisest counselors of
Pharaoh has become stupid. How do you
say to Pharaoh, “I am the son of the wise,
the son of ancient kings”?
12 Where then are your wise men? Let
them tell you now; and let them know
what Yahweh of Armies has purposed concerning Egypt.
13 The princes of Zoan have become
fools. The princes of Memphis are deceived. They have caused Egypt to go
astray, those who are the cornerstone of
her tribes.
14 Yahwehhas mixed a spirit of perverseness in the
middle of her; and they have caused Egyptto go astray
in all ofits works, like a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
15 Neither shall there be any work for
Egypt, which head or tail, palm branch or
rush, may do.
16 In that day the Egyptians will be like
women. They will tremble and fear because ofthe shaking of
Yahweh of Armies’s hand, which he shakes over them.
17 The land ofJudah will become a terror
to Egypt. Everyone to whom mention is
made of it will be afraid, because of the
plans of Yahweh of Armies, which he determines against it.
18 In that day, there will be five cities
in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan, and swear to Yahweh of
Armies. One will be called “The city of
destruction.”
19 In that day, there will be an altar to
Yahweh in the middle of the land of Egypt,
and a pillar to Yahweh at its border.
20 It will be for a sign and for a witness
to Yahweh of Armies in the land of Egypt;
for they will cry to Yahweh because of
oppressors, and he will send them a savior
and a defender, and he will deliver them.
21 Yahweh will be known to Egypt, and
the Egyptians will know Yahweh in that
day. Yes, they will worship with sacrifice
and offering, and will vow a vow to Yahweh, and will perform it.
22 Yahweh will strike Egypt, striking and
healing. They will return to Yahweh, and
he will be entreated by them, and will heal
them.
23 In that day there will be a highway out
of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall
come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into
Assyria; and the Egyptians will worship
with the Assyrians.
24 In that day,Israel will be the third with
Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing within
the earth;
25 because Yahweh of Armiesh as blessed
them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel
my inheritance.