Isaiah 19

1The burden of Egypt. “Behold, Yahweh rides on a swift cloud, and comes to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence; and the heart of Egypt will melt within it.Cross-references: Ex 12:12 · Ex 15:14 · Deut 33:26 · Josh 2:9 · Josh 2:11 · Josh 2:24 · +24 more

2I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians, and they will fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.Cross-references: Judg 7:22 · Judg 9:23 · 1Sam 14:16 · 1Sam 14:20 · 2Chr 20:22 · Isa 9:21 · +6 more

3The spirit of the Egyptians will fail within them. I will destroy their counsel. They will seek the idols, the charmers, those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards.Cross-references: 1Sam 25:37 · 2Sam 15:31 · 2Sam 17:14 · 2Sam 17:23 · 1Chr 10:13 · 2Chr 25:16 · +19 more

4I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord. A fierce king will rule over them,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.Cross-references: 1Sam 23:7 · Ps 31:8 · Isa 19:2 · Isa 20:4 · Jer 46:26 · Ezek 29:19

5The waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted and become dry.Cross-references: Jer 51:36 · Ezek 30:12 · Zech 10:11 · Zech 14:18

6The rivers will become foul. The streams of Egypt will be diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags will wither away.Cross-references: Ex 2:3 · Ex 7:18 · 2Ki 19:24 · Job 8:11 · Isa 15:6 · Isa 18:2 · +1 more

7The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and all the sown fields of the Nile, will become dry, be driven away, and be no more.Cross-references: Isa 23:3 · Isa 32:20 · Jer 14:4 · Ezek 19:13 · Joel 1:17

8The fishermen will lament, and all those who fish in the Nile will mourn, and those who spread nets on the waters will languish.Cross-references: Ex 7:21 · Num 11:5 · Ezek 47:10 · Hab 1:15

9Moreover those who work in combed flax, and those who weave white cloth, will be confounded.Cross-references: 1Ki 10:28 · Prov 7:16 · Ezek 27:7

10The pillars will be broken in pieces. All those who work for hire will be grieved in soul.Cross-references: Ex 7:19 · Ex 8:5 · Deut 11:10

11The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish. The counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become stupid. How do you say to Pharaoh, “I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings”?Cross-references: Gen 41:38 · Num 13:22 · 1Ki 4:30 · Job 5:12 · Job 12:17 · Ps 33:10 · +17 more

12Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you now; and let them know what Yahweh of Armies has purposed concerning Egypt.Cross-references: Judg 9:38 · Job 11:6 · Isa 5:21 · Isa 14:24 · Isa 40:13 · Isa 41:22 · +6 more

13The princes of Zoan have become fools. The princes of Memphis are deceived. They have caused Egypt to go astray, those who are the cornerstone of her tribes.Cross-references: Num 24:17 · 1Sam 14:38 · Isa 19:11 · Jer 2:16 · Jer 46:14 · Jer 46:19 · +5 more

14Yahweh has mixed a spirit of perverseness in the middle of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in all of its works, like a drunken man staggers in his vomit.Cross-references: 1Ki 22:20 · Job 12:16 · Job 12:25 · Isa 19:2 · Isa 28:7 · Isa 29:9 · +8 more

15Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which head or tail, palm branch or rush, may do.Cross-references: Ps 128:2 · Prov 14:23 · Isa 9:14 · Hab 3:17 · Hag 1:11 · 1Thess 4:11

16In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will tremble and fear because of the shaking of Yahweh of Armies’s hand, which he shakes over them.Cross-references: Ps 48:6 · Isa 10:32 · Isa 11:15 · Isa 30:17 · Isa 30:30 · Jer 30:5 · +5 more

17The land of Judah will become a terror to Egypt. Everyone to whom mention is made of it will be afraid, because of the plans of Yahweh of Armies, which he determines against it.Cross-references: Isa 14:24 · Isa 14:26 · Isa 20:2 · Isa 36:1 · Isa 46:10 · Jer 25:19 · +5 more

18In that day, there will be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan, and swear to Yahweh of Armies. One will be called “The city of destruction.”Cross-references: Gen 11:1 · Deut 10:20 · Neh 10:29 · Ps 68:31 · Isa 2:11 · Isa 11:11 · +7 more

19In that day, there will be an altar to Yahweh in the middle of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to Yahweh at its border.Cross-references: Gen 12:7 · Gen 28:18 · Ex 24:4 · Josh 22:10 · Josh 22:26 · Isa 66:23 · +2 more

20It will be for a sign and for a witness to Yahweh of Armies in the land of Egypt; for they will cry to Yahweh because of oppressors, and he will send them a savior and a defender, and he will deliver them.Cross-references: Ex 2:23 · Ex 3:7 · Josh 4:20 · Josh 22:27 · Josh 22:34 · Josh 24:26 · +12 more

21Yahweh will be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know Yahweh in that day. Yes, they will worship with sacrifice and offering, and will vow a vow to Yahweh, and will perform it.Cross-references: 1Sam 17:46 · 1Ki 8:43 · Ps 67:2 · Ps 98:2 · Eccl 5:4 · Isa 11:9 · +15 more

22Yahweh will strike Egypt, striking and healing. They will return to Yahweh, and he will be entreated by them, and will heal them.Cross-references: Deut 32:39 · Job 5:18 · Isa 6:10 · Isa 19:1 · Isa 45:14 · Isa 55:7 · +7 more

23In that day there will be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria; and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians.Cross-references: Isa 11:16 · Isa 27:13 · Isa 35:8 · Isa 40:3 · Eph 2:18 · Eph 3:6

24In that day, Israel will be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing within the earth;Cross-references: Gen 12:2 · Deut 32:43 · Ps 117:1 · Isa 6:13 · Isa 49:6 · Isa 49:22 · +13 more

25because Yahweh of Armies has blessed them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.”Cross-references: Num 6:24 · Num 6:27 · Num 24:1 · Deut 32:9 · Ps 67:6 · Ps 100:3 · +17 more