Isaiah, starting at chapter 19
{19:1} The burden of Egypt. Behold, Yahweh rides on a swift cloud,
and comes to Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall tremble at his
presence; and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it. {19:2}
I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall
fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against his neighbor;
city against city, [and] kingdom against kingdom. {19:3} The spirit of
Egypt shall fail in the midst of it; and I will destroy the counsel of
it: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to
those who have familiar spirits, and to the wizards. {19:4} I will
give over the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce
king shall rule over them, says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts. {19:5} The
waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and
become dry. {19:6} The rivers shall become foul; the streams of Egypt
shall be diminished and dried up; the reeds and flags shall wither
away. {19:7} The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and
all the sown fields of the Nile, shall become dry, be driven away, and
be no more. {19:8} The fishermen shall lament, and all those who cast
angle into the Nile shall mourn, and those who spread nets on the
waters shall languish. {19:9} Moreover those who work in combed flax,
and those who weave white cloth, shall be confounded. {19:10} The
pillars [of Egypt] shall be broken in pieces; all those who work for
hire [shall be] grieved in soul. {19:11} The princes of Zoan are
utterly foolish; the counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh is
become brutish: 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? and
let them tell you now; and let them know what Yahweh of Hosts has
purposed concerning Egypt. {19:13} The princes of Zoan are become
fools, the princes of Memphis are deceived; they have caused Egypt to
go astray, who are the corner-stone of her tribes. {19:14} Yahweh has
mixed a spirit of perverseness in the midst of her; and they have
caused Egypt to go astray in every work of it, as a drunken man
staggers in his vomit. {19:15} Neither shall there be for Egypt any
work, which head or tail, palm-branch or rush, may do. {19:16} In that
day shall the Egyptians be like women; and they shall tremble and fear
because of the shaking of the hand of Yahweh of Hosts, which he shakes
over them. {19:17} The land of Judah shall become a terror to Egypt;
everyone to whom mention is made of it shall be afraid, because of the
purpose of Yahweh of Hosts, which he purposes against it. {19:18} In
that day there shall be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak
the language of Canaan, and swear to Yahweh of hosts; one shall be
called The city of destruction. {19:19} In that day shall there be an
altar to Yahweh in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the
border of it to Yahweh. {19:20} It shall be for a sign and for a
witness to Yahweh of Hosts in the land of Egypt; for they shall cry to
Yahweh because of oppressors, and he will send them a savior, and a
defender, and he will deliver them. {19:21} Yahweh shall be known to
Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know Yahweh in that day; yes, they
shall worship with sacrifice and offering, and shall vow a vow to
Yahweh, and shall perform it. {19:22} Yahweh will strike Egypt,
smiting and healing; and they shall return to Yahweh, and he will be
entreated of them, and will 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 worship
with the Assyrians. {19:24} In that day shall Israel be the third with
Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth; {19:25}
because Yahweh of Hosts has blessed them, saying, Blessed be Egypt my
people, and 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 Yahweh spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go, and
loose the sackcloth from off your loins, and put your shoe from off
your foot. He did so, walking naked and barefoot. {20:3} Yahweh said,
Like 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 shall the king of Assyria 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 shall be
dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of
Egypt their glory. {20:6} The inhabitant of this coast-land shall say
in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, where we fled for help
to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and we, how shall we escape?
{21:1} The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the
South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome
land. {21:2} A grievous vision is declared to me; the treacherous man
deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; besiege,
Media; all the sighing of it have I made to cease. {21:3} Therefore
are my loins filled with anguish; pangs have taken hold on me, as the
pangs of a woman in travail: I am pained so that I can't hear; I am
dismayed so that I can't see. {21:4} My heart flutters, horror has
frightened me; the twilight that I desired has been turned into
trembling to me. {21:5} They prepare the table, they set the watch,
they eat, they drink: rise up, you princes, anoint the shield. {21:6}
For thus has the Lord said to me, Go, set a watchman: let him declare
what he sees: {21:7} and when he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a
troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with
much heed. {21:8} He cried as a lion: Lord, I stand continually on the
watch-tower in the day-time, and am set in my ward whole nights;
{21:9} and, behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs. He
answered, Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of
her gods are broken to the ground. {21:10} You my threshing, and the
grain of my floor! that which I have heard from Yahweh of hosts, the
God of Israel, have I declared to you. {21:11} The burden of Dumah.
One calls to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman,
what of the night? {21:12} The watchman said, "The morning comes, and
also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again."
{21:13} The burden on Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall you
lodge, you caravans of Dedanites. {21:14} To him who was thirsty they
brought water; the inhabitants of the land of Tema did meet the
fugitives with their bread. {21:15} For they fled away from the
swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the heat
of battle. {21:16} For thus has the Lord said to me, Within a year,
according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Kedar shall
fail; {21:17} and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty
men of the children of Kedar, shall be few; for Yahweh, the God of
Israel, has spoken it.
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