LEB ISA Chapter 19

Oracle of Judgment on Egypt

• 19 An oracle of Egypt:Look! Yahweh is riding on a swift cloud
  • and is coming to Egypt.
• And the idols of Egypt will tremble in front of him,
  • and the heart of Egypt melts in his inner parts.
  • 2 [fn] against[fn] and each one will fight against his brother
• and each one against his neighbor,
  • city against city, kingdom against kingdom.
  • 3 [fn] will be disturbed in his midst, and I will[fn] his plans,[fn]
• and they will consult the idols and the spirits of the dead,
  • and the ghosts and the spiritists.
  • 4 [fn] into the hand of a hard master, and a powerful king will rule over them,”
• [fn] the Lord Yahweh of hosts.
  • 5 the waters will be dried up from the sea, and the river will be parched and dry.
  • 6 the rivers will become foul-smelling; the branches of the Nile of Egypt will become little and dry up;
  • reed and rush will wither.
  • 7 the Nile will be dried up, by the edge of the Nile and all the sown land of the Nile;
  • it will be driven about, and[fn]
  • 8  and all of those who cast fishhooks[fn] in the Nile will lament,
  • and those who spread out fishing nets[fn] on the[fn] of the water will languish.
  • 9 the workers of combed flax will be ashamed, and those who weave white linen.
  • 10  all the[fn] will be grieved of heart.
  • 11 are foolish; the wise of the counselors of Pharaoh give senseless counsel.
• How can you say to Pharaoh,
  • “I myself am a son of sages,
  • a[fn] of ancient kings”?
  • 12 are your sages then? Now, let them tell you,
  • and let them know what Yahweh of hosts has planned against Egypt.
  • 13  the princes of Memphis are deceived;
  • the leaders of her tribes have led Egypt astray.
  • 14  and they have caused Egypt to stagger in all of its doings,
    • as[fn] in his vomit.
  • 15 [fn] head or tail, palm branch or reed.

The Future Blessing of Egypt, Assyria, and Egypt

• 16 and will tremble and be afraid
• before the waving hand of Yahweh of hosts
  • that he is waving against it.
  • 17  everyone to whom one mentions it will be afraid in himself
    • because of the plan of Yahweh of hosts that he is planning against him.
• 18  there will be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the[fn] of Canaan
  • and swear an oath to Yahweh of hosts.
• One will be called “City of the Sun.”
• 19 On that day,there will be an altar for Yahweh in in the middle of the land of Egypt,
  • and a stone pillar for Yahweh at her border.

20 And it will be a sign and a witness to Yahweh of hosts in the land of Egypt;when they cry out to Yahweh because of oppressors,

• he will send them a savior and a[fn]
  • and he will deliver them.
  • 21  and Egypt will know Yahweh on that day,
• and they will worship with sacrifice and offering,
  • and they will make vows[fn] to Yahweh,
    • and they will fulfill them.
  • 22  striking and healing;
• and they will return to Yahweh,
  • and he will respond to their prayer,
    • and he will heal them.
• 23 On that day,there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria,
  • and Assyria will come into Egypt,
  • and Egypt into Assyria,
  • and Egypt will worship together with Assyria.
• 24 On that day,Israel will be the third with Egypt and Assyria,
  • a blessing in the midst of the earth,
• 25 whom Yahweh of hosts blessed, saying,“May Egypt my people be blessed,
  • and Assyria, the work of my hands,
    • and my inheritance, Israel.”