Isaiah 19 — Legacy Standard Bible

An Oracle Concerning Egypt

19The ¹^,^aoracle concerning ^bEgypt. Behold, Yahweh is ^criding on a swift cloud and is about to come to Egypt;The ^didols of Egypt will shake at His presence,And the ^eheart of the Egyptians will melt within them.

²“So I will incite Egyptians against Egyptians;And they will ^aeach fight against his brother and each against his neighbor,City against city and kingdom against kingdom.³“Then the spirit of the Egyptians will be emptied to destruction within them;And I will confuse their counsel,So that ^athey will seek idols and ghosts of the deadAnd to ¹mediums and spiritists.⁴“Moreover, I will deliver the Egyptians into the hand of a ^acruel master,And a ¹strong king will rule over them,” declares the Lord, Yahweh of hosts.⁵^aThe waters from the sea will dry up,And the river will be parched and dry.⁶The ^arivers will emit a stench,The ¹^,^bstreams of Egypt will thin out and dry up;^cThe reeds and rushes will rot away.⁷The bulrushes by the ^aNile, by the ¹edge of the NileAnd all the sown fields by the NileWill become dry, be driven away, and be no more.⁸And the ^afishermen will lament,And all those who cast a ¹line into the Nile will mourn,And those who spread nets on the waters will ²languish.⁹Moreover, the manufacturers of linen made from combed flaxAnd the weavers of white ^acloth will be ashamed.¹⁰And ¹the ^apillars of Egypt will be crushed;All the hired laborers will be grieved in soul.¹¹The princes of ¹^,^aZoan are merely ignorant fools;The counsel of Pharaoh’s wisest counselors has become ²senseless.How can you men say to Pharaoh,“I am a son of the ^bwise, a son of the kings of old”?¹²Well then, where are your wise men?Please let them tell you,And let them ¹understand what Yahweh of hostsHas ^acounseled against Egypt.¹³The princes of ¹Zoan have acted as ignorant fools,The princes of ^aMemphis are deluded;Those who are the ^bcornerstone of her tribes²Have led Egypt astray.¹⁴Yahweh has mixed within her a spirit of ^adistortion;^bThey have led Egypt astray in all ¹that it does,As a ^cdrunken man ²strays into his vomit.¹⁵There will be no work for Egypt^aWhich its head or tail, its palm branch or bulrush, may do.

Yahweh Will Bless Egypt, Assyria, and Israel

¹⁶In that day the Egyptians will become like women, and they will tremble and be in ^adread because of the ^bwaving of the hand of Yahweh of hosts, which He is going to wave over them. ¹⁷And the land of Judah will become a ¹terror to Egypt; everyone ²to whom it is mentioned will be in dread of it because of the ^acounsel of Yahweh of hosts which He is counseling against them.

¹⁸In that day five cities in the land of Egypt will be speaking the language of Canaan and ^aswearing allegiance to Yahweh of hosts; one will be called the City of ¹Destruction.

¹⁹In that day there will be an ^aaltar to Yahweh in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a ^bpillar to Yahweh near its border. ²⁰And it will become a sign and a witness to Yahweh of hosts in the land of Egypt; for they will cry to Yahweh because of oppressors, and He will send them a ^aSavior and a ¹^,^bChampion, and He will deliver them. ²¹Thus Yahweh will make Himself known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know Yahweh in that day. They will even worship with ^asacrifice and offering, and they will make a vow to Yahweh and pay it. ²²And Yahweh will smite Egypt, smiting but ^ahealing; so they will ^breturn to Yahweh, and He will be moved by their entreaty and will heal them.

²³In that day there will be a ^ahighway from Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrians will come into Egypt and the Egyptians into Assyria, and the Egyptians will ^bworship with the Assyrians.

²⁴In that day Israel will be the third party with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth, ²⁵whom Yahweh of hosts has blessed, saying, “Blessed is ^aEgypt My people, and Assyria ^bthe work of My hands, and Israel My inheritance.”