The burden of
Egypt. Behold, the Lord rideth upon 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 midst of it.
02 And I will set the Egyptians against the
Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against
his brother, and every one against his neighbour;
city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
03 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the
midst 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.
04 And the Egyptians will I give over into the
hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall
rule over them, saith the Lord, the Lord of
hosts.
05 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and
the river shall be wasted and dried up.
06 And they shall turn the rivers far away; and
the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried
up: the reeds and flags shall wither.
07 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.
08 The fishers also shall mourn, and all they
that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and
they that spread nets upon the waters shall
languish.
09 Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they
that weave networks, shall be confounded.
10 And they shall be broken in the purposes
thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for
fish.
11 Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the
counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is
become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the
son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
12 Where are they? where are thy wise men? and
let them tell thee now, and let them know what
the Lord of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.
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.
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14 The Lord hath mingled a perverse spirit in the
midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err
in every work thereof, as a drunken man
staggereth in his vomit.
15 Neither shall there be any work for Egypt,
which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.
16 In that day shall Egypt be like unto women:
and it shall be afraid and fear because of the
shaking of the hand of the Lord of hosts, which
he shaketh over it.
17 And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto
Egypt, every one that maketh mention thereof
shall be afraid in himself, because of the
counsel of the Lord of hosts, which he hath
determined against it.
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.
19 In that day shall there be an altar to the
Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a
pillar at the border thereof to the Lord.
20 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness
unto the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt: for
they shall cry unto the Lord because of the
oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and
a great one, and he shall deliver them.
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; yea, they shall
vow a vow unto the Lord, and perform it.
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 intreated of them, and
shall heal them.
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.
24 In that day shall Israel be the third with
Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the
midst of the land:
25 Whom the Lord of hosts shall bless, saying,
Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work
of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
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