Isaiah 19

1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rides on 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 middle of it.AKJV — Isaiah 19:1

2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.AKJV — Isaiah 19:2

3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the middle 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.AKJV — Isaiah 19:3

4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, said the Lord, the LORD of hosts.AKJV — Isaiah 19:4

5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.AKJV — Isaiah 19:5

6 And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defense shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.AKJV — Isaiah 19:6

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.AKJV — Isaiah 19:7

8 The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets on the waters shall languish.AKJV — Isaiah 19:8

9 Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.AKJV — Isaiah 19:9

10 And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.AKJV — Isaiah 19:10

11 Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say you to Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?AKJV — Isaiah 19:11

12 Where are they? where are your wise men? and let them tell you now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts has purposed on Egypt.AKJV — Isaiah 19:12

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.AKJV — Isaiah 19:13

14 The LORD has mingled a perverse spirit in the middle thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.AKJV — Isaiah 19:14

15 Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.AKJV — Isaiah 19:15

16 In that day shall Egypt be like to women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shakes over it.AKJV — Isaiah 19:16

17 And the land of Judah shall be a terror to Egypt, every one that makes mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he has determined against it.AKJV — Isaiah 19:17

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.AKJV — Isaiah 19:18

19 In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the middle of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD.AKJV — Isaiah 19:19

20 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness to the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry to the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a savior, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.AKJV — Isaiah 19:20

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; yes, they shall vow a vow to the LORD, and perform it.AKJV — Isaiah 19:21

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 entreated of them, and shall heal them.AKJV — Isaiah 19:22

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.AKJV — Isaiah 19:23

24 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the middle of the land:AKJV — Isaiah 19:24

25 Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.AKJV — Isaiah 19:25