Isa 19 | NASB2020 | STEP | The pronouncement concerning Egypt : Behold , the Lord is riding on a swift cloud and is about to come to Egypt ; The idols of Egypt will tremble at His presence , And the heart of the Egyptians will melt within them.

Isaiah 19

Message to Egypt

1 The ^apronouncement concerning ^bEgypt:

Behold, the Lord is ^criding on a swift cloud and is about to come to Egypt;
The ^didols of Egypt will tremble at His presence,
And the ^eheart of the Egyptians will melt within them.
2 “So I will incite Egyptians against Egyptians;
And they will fight, ^feach against his brother and each against his neighbor,
City against city and kingdom against kingdom.
3 “Then the spirit of the Egyptians will be demoralized within them;
And I will confuse their strategy,
So that ^gthey will resort to idols and ghosts of the dead,
And to ^{▼▼Or ghosts and spirits}mediums and spiritists.
4 “Furthermore, I will hand the Egyptians over to a ⁱcruel master,
And a ^{▼▼Or fierce}mighty king will rule over them,” declares the Lord ^{▼▼Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord}God of armies.

5 ^lThe waters from the sea will dry up,
And the river will be parched and dry.
6 The ^{▼▼Lit rivers
,} ⁿcanals will emit a stench,
The ^{▼▼Or Nile branches; i.e., the delta
,} ^pstreams of Egypt will thin out and dry up;
^qThe reeds and rushes will rot away.
7 The bulrushes by the ^rNile, by the ^{▼▼Or mouth}edge of the Nile
And all the sown fields by the Nile
Will become dry, be driven away, and be no more.
8 And the ^tfishermen will grieve,
And all those who cast a ^{▼▼Lit hook}line into the Nile will mourn,
And those who spread nets on the waters will dwindle away.
9 Moreover, the manufacturers of linen made from combed flax
And the weavers of white ^vcloth will be ^{▼▼Lit ashamed}utterly dejected.
10 And ^{▼▼Lit her pillars; or her weavers}the ^ypillars of Egypt will be crushed;
All the hired laborers will be grieved in soul.

11 The officials of ^{▼▼Or Tanis
,} ^aaZoan are mere fools;
The advice of Pharaoh’s wisest advisers has become ^{▼▼Or brutish}stupid.
How can you say to Pharaoh,
“I am a son of the ^acwise, a son of ancient kings”?
12 Well then, where are your wise men?
Please let them tell you,
And let them ^{▼▼Or know}understand what the Lord of armies
Has ^aeplanned against Egypt.
13 The officials of ^{▼▼Or Tanis}Zoan have turned out to be fools,
The officials of ^agMemphis are deluded;
Those who are the ^ahcornerstone of her tribes
Have ^{▼▼Or have caused Egypt to stagger}led Egypt astray.
14 The Lord has mixed within her a spirit of ^ajdistortion;
^akThey have led Egypt astray in all ^{▼▼Lit its work}that it does,
As a ^amdrunken person ^{▼▼Or goes astray}staggers in his vomit.
15 There will be no work for Egypt
^aoWhich its head or tail, its palm branch or bulrush, may do.
16 On that day the Egyptians will become like women, and they will tremble and be in great ^apfear because of the ^aqwaving of the hand of the Lord of armies, which He is going to wave over them. 17 The land of Judah will become a cause of shame to Egypt; everyone to whom it is mentioned will be in great fear because of the ^arplan of the Lord of armies which He is making against them.

18 On that day five cities in the land of Egypt will be speaking the language of Canaan and ^asswearing allegiance to the Lord of armies; one will be called the City of ^{▼▼Some mss and ancient versions the Sun}Destruction.

19 On that day there will be an ^aualtar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a ^avmemorial stone to the Lord beside its border. 20 And it will become a sign and a witness to the Lord of armies in the land of Egypt; for they will cry out to the Lord because of oppressors, and He will send them a ^awSavior and a ^axChampion, and He will save them. 21 So the Lord will make Himself known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know the Lord on that day. They will even worship with ^aysacrifice and offering, and will make a vow to the Lord and perform it. 22 And the Lord will strike Egypt, striking but ^azhealing; so they will ^bareturn to the Lord, and He will respond to their pleas and heal them.

23 On that day there will be a ^bbroad from Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrians will come into Egypt and the Egyptians into Assyria; and the Egyptians will ^bcworship with the Assyrians.

24 On that day Israel will be the third party to Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth, 25 whom the Lord of armies has blessed, saying, “Blessed is ^bdEgypt My people, and Assyria ^bethe work of My hands, and Israel My inheritance.”