Isaiah 19:1-15 - Oracle Of Judgment On Egypt

¹ The burden of Egypt Behold, Jehovah riding upon a swift cloud and coming to Egypt: and the vanities of Egypt moved to and fro from his face, and the heart of Egypt will melt in its midst ² And I aroused Egypt against Egypt, and they warred a man against his brother, and a man against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom. ³ And the spirit of Egypt was emptied in its midst, and its counsel I will destroy: and they sought to the vanities and to the mutterers, and to the necromancers, and to the wizards. ⁴ And I shut up Egypt into the hand of hard lords, and a strong king shall rule over them, says the Lord Jehovah of armies.

⁵ And the water failed from the sea, and the river will waste and dry up. ⁶ They cast away the rivers; the rivers of Egypt languished and dried up; the reed and the sedge pined away. ⁷ The naked places by the river upon the mouth of the river, and everything being sown by the river was dried up, driven away, and nothing of it ⁸ And the fishermen groaned, and all casting the hook into the river mourned, and they spreading nets upon the face of the water, languished. ⁹ And they working hatcheled flax and they weaving white linens were ashamed. ¹⁰ And her pillars were broken in pieces, and all making wages, sorrowful in soul.

¹¹ Also the chiefs of Zoan are foolish, the wise counseling Pharaoh the counsel became brutish: how shall ye say to Pharaoh, I the son of the wise, the son of kings of old? ¹² Where are they? where thy wise? and they shall announce to thee now, and they shall make known what Jehovah shall counsel upon Egypt ¹³ The chiefs of Zoan were foolish, the chiefs of Noph were deceived; and they caused Egypt to wander, the pinnacles of its tribes. ¹⁴ Jehovah mingled in the midst of her a spirit of perversities) and they caused Egypt to wander in all its works as the intoxicated wanders in his vomit ¹⁵ And there shall not be to Egypt a work which shall make head and tail, branch and reed.