Isaías 19

1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the

2 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,

3 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 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

5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.

6 And they shall turn the rivers far away;

7 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

8 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 Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.

10 And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices

11 Surely the princes of Zoan

12 Where

13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt,

14 The

15 Neither shall there be

16 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

17 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

18 In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the

19 In that day shall there be an altar to the

20 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the

21 And the

22 And the

23 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 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria,

25 Whom the