Isaiah 19

Revised Geneva Translation

19 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rides 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.

² “And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians. So everyone shall fight against his brother, and everyone against his neighbor, city against city, kingdom against kingdom.

³ “And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst of it. And I will destroy their counsel. And they shall seek the idols, and the sorcerers, and those who have spirits of divination, and the soothsayers.

⁴ “And I will deliver the Egyptians into the hand of the cruel lords. And a mighty king shall rule over them,” says the LORD God of Hosts.

⁵ Then the waters of the sea shall fail. And the river shall be dried up and wasted.

⁶ And the rivers shall go far away. The rivers of defense shall be emptied and dried up. The reeds and flags shall be cut down.

⁷ The grass in the river, at the head of the rivers and all that grows by the river, shall wither, be driven away and be no more.

⁸ Also, the fishers shall mourn. And all those who cast hooks into the river shall lament. And those who spread their net upon the waters shall be weakened.

⁹ Moreover, those who work in flax of diverse sorts shall be confounded, and those who weave nets.

¹⁰ For their nets shall be broken. And all those who make ponds shall be heavy in heart.

¹¹ Surely, the princes of Zoan are fools. The counsel of the wise counselors of Pharaoh has become foolish. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am the son of the wise?”, “I am the son of the ancient kings?”

¹² Where are the wise men now, that they may tell you or may know what the LORD of Hosts has determined against Egypt?

¹³ The princes of Zoan have become fools. The princes of Noph are deceived. They have deceived Egypt, the cornerstones of its tribes.

¹⁴ The LORD has mingled among them the spirits of error. And they have caused Egypt to err in every work, as a drunken man errs in his vomit.

¹⁵ Nor shall there be any work in Egypt which the head may do, or the tail, the branch, or the rush.

¹⁶ On that day, Egypt shall be like women. For it shall be afraid and fear because of the moving of the Hand of the LORD of Hosts, which He shakes over it.

¹⁷ And the land of Judah shall be a terror to Egypt. Everyone who mentions it shall be afraid of it, because of the counsel of the LORD of Hosts which He has determined upon it.

¹⁸ On that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and shall swear by the LORD of Hosts. One shall be called the City of Destruction.

¹⁹ On that day shall the Altar of the LORD be in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a Pillar to the LORD by its border.

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, a Mighty One, and shall deliver them.

²¹ And the LORD shall be known to the Egyptians. And the Egyptians shall know the LORD on that day, and serve sacrifice and oblation, and shall vow vows to the LORD, and perform them.

²² So the LORD shall strike Egypt. He shall strike and heal it. For it shall return to the LORD. And He shall be entreated by them and shall heal them.

²³ On that day there shall be a path from Egypt to Assyria. And Assyria shall come into Egypt, and Egypt into Assyria. So the Egyptians shall worship with Assyria.

²⁴ On that day shall Israel be the third, with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the land.

²⁵ For the LORD of Hosts shall bless it, saying, “Blessed be My people, Egypt and Assyria, the work of My hands, and Israel, My inheritance.”