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.”