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UST ISA Chapter 19

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19 Yahweh gave this message about Egypt.

Pay attention! Yahweh is coming to Egypt,

riding on a fast-moving cloud.

It will be as if the idols of Egypt tremble when he arrives.

The Egyptians will not be brave anymore.

2 Yahweh says, “I will influence the Egyptians to fight against each other.

People will fight against their own relatives and neighbors.

The army of one city will fight against the army of another city.

The army of one kingdom will fight against the army of another kingdom.

3 I will prevent the Egyptians from doing what they plan,

and this will greatly discourage them.

They will try to find out what to do by asking the gods that their idols represent.

They will ask fortunetellers and those who try to contact people who have died or talk to spirits.

4 Then I will give a cruel person the power to become the master of the Egyptians.

He will rule over them as a fierce king.”

This is what the Lord, Yahweh, the commander of the heavenly armies, declares.

5 The water in the great Nile River will dry up

so that its riverbed will become dry ground.

6 The water in the irrigation channels will become stagnant and stink.

The streams that the Nile divides into at its delta will steadily dry up.

The reeds and rushes in the river will wither.

7 The vegetation along the Nile at its mouth

and the crops that people plant near the Nile will dry up.

The wind will blow them away, and nothing will remain.

8 The people who used to catch fish in the Nile

will be very sad because they cannot do that work anymore,

whether they caught fish by casting hooks into the river

or by throwing nets into the water.

9 Workers used to helped to produce linen

Some of them combed the flax fibers.

Others wove the fibers into cloth.

These workers will also be sad

because they have no work

because there is no water to grow flax anymore.

10 The work that provided the basis of the Egyptian economy will end.

The people who worked for wages will feel great distress.

11 The officials of the city of Zoan are certainly fools.

The wisest advisors of Pharaoh give foolish advice.

None of them should brag to Pharaoh,

“I am one of the wise people you ought to consult.

` My ancestors were kings, and they passed their wisdom

down through the generations to me.”

12 If there really are wise people in Egypt,

they should recognize what Yahweh, the commander of the heavenly armies,

is planning to do to Egypt.

Then they should tell the Egyptians.

13 But the officials of Zoan have become foolish.

The officials of Noph are only deceiving themselves when they think they are wise.

The most important leaders of its tribes have led Egypt astray.

14 Yahweh has confused the Egyptians

by making these leaders tell them to do the wrong things.

It is as if the Egyptians are stumbling about

the way a very drunk person vomits and then steps in his vomit.

15 No one in Egypt is able to do anything to change the situation.

It does not matter whether he is a leader or a common person.

It does not matter whether he is important or unimportant.

16 At that time, the Egyptians will not be strong warriors. They will tremble with fear because of what Yahweh, the commander of the heavenly armies, is about to do to them by his power. 17 The Egyptians will be very afraid of the people who live in the land of Judah. Suppose someone mentions Judah to an Egyptian. That will make him very afraid because of what Yahweh, the commander of the heavenly armies, has decided to do to Egypt.

18 At that time, people in five cities in the land of Egypt will speak Hebrew. They will worship Yahweh, the commander of the heavenly armies, as their God. People will call one of those cities “the City of Destruction.”

19 At that time, there will be an altar for worshiping Yahweh in the center of the land of Egypt. There will also be a stone pillar at Egypt’s border that honors Yahweh. 20 This pillar will identify Yahweh, the commander of the heavenly armies, as the God whom people worship in the land of Egypt. When enemies invade and oppress the Egyptians, they will pray to Yahweh for help. He will send a powerful person to rescue them from their enemies.

21 At that time, Yahweh will reveal himself to the Egyptians, and they will acknowledge him. They will worship him with sacrifices and grain offerings. The Egyptians will make vows to Yahweh, and will do what they have promised. 22 Yahweh will punish the Egyptians when they do wrong, and this will cause them to repent. They will pray to Yahweh, and he will restore them.

23 At that time, there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria. Assyrians will travel to Egypt, and Egyptians will travel to Assyria. The people of both countries will worship Yahweh together.

24 At that time, Yahweh will use the Israelites together with the Egyptians and Assyrians to make good things happen for people throughout the earth. 25 Yahweh, the commander of the heavenly armies, will bless them. He will say, “I bless Egypt, my people, and Assyria, the nation I have made, and Israel, my special possession.”