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Chapter 19
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1
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The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth 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
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And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians:
and they shall fight every one against his brother, and
every one against his neighbour; city against city, and
kingdom against kingdom. |
3
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And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof;
and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall
seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that
have familiar spirits, and to the wizards. |
4
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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. |
5
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And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river
shall be wasted and dried up. |
6
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And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks
of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and
flags shall wither. |
7
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The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the
brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither,
be driven away, and be no more. |
8
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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. |
9
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Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that
weave networks, shall be confounded. |
10
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And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all
that make sluices and ponds for fish. |
11
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Surely the princes of Zoan 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? |
12
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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. |
13
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The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of
Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even
they that are the stay of the tribes thereof. |
14
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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. |
15
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Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the
head or tail, branch or rush, may do. |
16
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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. |
17
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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. |
18
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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. |
19
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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. |
20
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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. |
21
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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. |
22
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And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and
heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and
he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them. |
23
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In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to
Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and
the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve
with the Assyrians. |
24
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In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and
with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land: |
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Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed
be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands,
and Israel mine inheritance. |
