Isaiah, starting at chapter 19
{19:1} The burden of Egypt: Behold, the LORD 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 in its midst. {19:2} 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. {19:3} The spirit of Egypt
will fail in its midst. I will destroy its counsel. They will seek the
idols, the charmers, those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards.
{19:4} I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord. A
fierce king will rule over them, says the Lord, the LORD of Hosts.
{19:5} The waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted
and become dry. {19:6} The rivers will become foul. The streams of
Egypt will be diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags will wither
away. {19:7} 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. {19:8} The fishermen will lament, and all those who fish
in the Nile will mourn, and those who spread nets on the waters will
languish. {19:9} Moreover those who work in combed flax, and those who
weave white cloth, will be confounded. {19:10} The pillars will be
broken in pieces. All those who work for hire will be grieved in soul.
{19:11} 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? {19:12}
Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you now; and let them know
what the LORD of Hosts has purposed concerning Egypt. {19:13} The
princes of Zoan have become fools. The princes of Memphis are
deceived. They have caused Egypt to go astray, who are the cornerstone
of her tribes. {19:14} The LORD has mixed a spirit of perverseness in
the midst of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in all of
its works, like a drunken man staggers in his vomit. {19:15} Neither
shall there be any work for Egypt, which head or tail, palm branch or
rush, may do. {19:16} In that day the Egyptians will be like women.
They will tremble and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the
LORD of Hosts, which he shakes over them. {19:17} The land of Judah
will become a terror to Egypt. Everyone to whom mention is made of it
will be afraid, because of the plans of the LORD of Hosts, which he
determines against it. {19:18} In that day, there will be five cities
in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan, and swear to
the LORD of Hosts. One will be called The city of destruction.
{19:19} In that day, there will be an altar to the LORD in the midst
of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the LORD at its border. {19:20}
It will be for a sign and for a witness to the LORD of Hosts in the
land of Egypt; for they will cry to the LORD because of oppressors,
and he will send them a savior and a defender, and he will deliver
them. {19:21} The LORD will be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will
know the LORD in that day. Yes, they will worship with sacrifice and
offering, and will vow a vow to the LORD, and will perform it. {19:22}
The LORD will strike Egypt, striking and healing. They will return to
the LORD, and he will be entreated by them, and will heal them.
{19:23} 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. {19:24} In that
day, Israel will be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing
in the midst of the earth; {19:25} because the LORD of Hosts has
blessed them, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria the work of
my hands, and Israel my inheritance.
{20:1} In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king
of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it; {20:2}
at that time the LORD spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go,
and loosen the sackcloth from off your waist, and take your shoes from
off your feet. He did so, walking naked and barefoot. {20:3} The LORD
said, As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years
for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning Ethiopia,
{20:4} so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and
the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with
buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt. {20:5} They will be
dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of
Egypt their glory. {20:6} The inhabitants of this coast land will say
in that day, 'Behold, this is our expectation, where we fled for help
to be delivered from the king of Assyria. And we, how will we escape?'
{21:1} The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the
South sweep through, it comes from the
