Chapter 19.
The Burden of Egypt.
And I will destroy the council thereof, and they shall seek to the idols,
and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord, and a fierce
king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts.
And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried
up.
And they shall turn the rivers far away, and the brooks of defense shall be emptied
and dried up.
The reeds and flags shall wither.
The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and everything
sewn by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.
The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall
lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.
Moreover, they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be
confounded.
And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds
for fish.
Surely the princes of Zohan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of
Pharaoh is become brutish.
How say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
Where are they?
Where are thy wise men?
And let them tell thee now, and let them know what the Lord of hosts hath purposed
upon Egypt.
The princes of Zohan are become fools, the princes of Nophth are deceived.
They have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.
The Lord hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof, and they have caused
Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush may
do.
In that day shall Egypt be like unto women, and it shall be afraid,
and fear, because of the shaking of the hand of the Lord of hosts, which he
shaketh over it.
And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt.
Every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the
counsel of the Lord of hosts, which he hath determined against it.
In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan,
and swear to the Lord of hosts.
One shall be called the city of destruction.
In that day shall there be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt,
and a pillar at the border thereof to the Lord.
And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the Lord of hosts in the land
of Egypt.
For they shall cry unto the Lord because of the oppressors, and he shall send them
a Saviour and a Great One, and he shall deliver them.
And the Lord shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the Lord in
that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation.
Yea, they shall vow a vow unto the Lord, and perform it.
And the Lord shall smite Egypt, he shall smite and heal it, and they shall
return even to the Lord, and he shall be entreated of them, and shall heal them.
In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrians
shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptians into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall
serve with the Assyrians.
In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt, and with Assyria, even a blessing
in the midst of the land, whom the Lord of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be
Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.