Yesha`yahu, starting at chapter 19
{19:1} The burden of Mitzrayim. Behold, the LORD rides on a swift
cloud, and comes to Mitzrayim: and the idols of Mitzrayim shall
tremble at his presence; and the heart of Mitzrayim shall melt in the
midst of it. {19:2} I will stir up the Mitzrim against the Mitzrim:
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 Mitzrayim 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 Mitzrim into the hand
of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, says the
Lord, the LORD 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 Mitzrayim 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 Mitzrayim] shall
be broken in pieces; all those who work for hire [shall be] grieved in
soul. {19:11} The princes of Tzo`an are utterly foolish; the counsel
of the wisest counselors of Par`oh is become brutish: how do you say
to Par`oh, 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 the LORD of Hosts has purposed concerning Mitzrayim. {19:13}
The princes of Tzo`an are become fools, the princes of Mof are
deceived; they have caused Mitzrayim to go astray, who are the
corner-stone of her tribes. {19:14} The LORD has mixed a spirit of
perverseness in the midst of her; and they have caused Mitzrayim to go
astray in every work of it, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
{19:15} Neither shall there be for Mitzrayim any work, which head or
tail, palm-branch or rush, may do. {19:16} In that day shall the
Mitzrim be like women; and they shall 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 Yehudah shall become a terror to Mitzrayim;
everyone to whom mention is made of it shall be afraid, because of the
purpose of the LORD of Hosts, which he purposes against it. {19:18} In
that day there shall be five cities in the land of Mitzrayim that
speak the language of Kana`an, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one
shall be called The city of destruction. {19:19} In that day shall
there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Mitzrayim,
and a pillar at the border of it to the LORD. {19:20} It shall be for
a sign and for a witness to the LORD of Hosts in the land of
Mitzrayim; for they shall 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 shall be known to Mitzrayim, and the Mitzrim shall
know the LORD in that day; yes, they shall worship with sacrifice and
offering, and shall vow a vow to the LORD, and shall perform it.
{19:22} The LORD will strike Mitzrayim, smiting and healing; and they
shall return to the LORD, and he will be entreated of them, and will
heal them. {19:23} In that day shall there be a highway out of
Mitzrayim to Ashshur, and the Ashshur shall come into Mitzrayim, and
the Mitzrian into Ashshur; and the Mitzrim shall worship with the
Ashshur. {19:24} In that day shall Yisra'el be the third with
Mitzrayim and with Ashshur, a blessing in the midst of the
[1>]eretz[<1]; {19:25} because the LORD of Hosts has blessed them,
saying, Blessed be Mitzrayim my people, and Ashshur the work of my
hands, and Yisra'el my inheritance.
{20:1} In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king
of Ashshur sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it; {20:2}
at that time the LORD spoke by Yesha`yahu the son of Amotz, 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} The
LORD said, Like as my servant Yesha`yahu has walked naked and barefoot
three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Mitzrayim and
concerning Kush; {20:4} so shall the king of Ashshur lead away the
captives of Mitzrayim, and the exiles of Kush, young and old, naked
and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Mitzrayim.
{20:5} They shall be dismayed and confounded, because of Kush their
expectation, and of Mitzrayim 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
Ashshur: 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, Madai; 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 Bavel; 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 the LORD of
hosts, the God of Yisra'el, have I declared to you. {21:11} The burden
of Dumah. One calls to me out of Se`ir, 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 `Arav. In the forest in `Arav shall you lodge,
you caravans of Dedanim. {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 the LORD, the God of Yisra'el,
has spoken it.
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Footnotes:
[1] {19:24} earth
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