Isaiah 19 LOAD OF EGYPT "Behold Yahweh riding on a thick cloud! It is fleet, and He comes to Egypt. And the forbidden idols of Egypt are swayed by His presence, and the heart of Egypt is melting within it."

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ LOAD OF EGYPT "Behold Yahweh riding on a thick cloud! It is fleet, and He comes to Egypt. And the forbidden idols of Egypt are swayed by His presence, and the heart of Egypt is melting within it." ² And I tangle Egypt with Egypt, and they will fight, each man against his brother, and each man against his associate. And city shall rouse against city, kingdom against kingdom." ³ And void is the spirit of Egypt within it, and I will swallow up its counsel. And they inquire of the forbidden idols, and of the ventriloquists, and of the mediums and of the wizards." ⁴ And I hold the Egyptians in check by the hand of obstinate lords, and a strong king shall rule among them,averring is the Lord, Yahweh of hosts." ⁵ And absorbed are the waters from the upper sea, and the stream shall be drained and be dry." ⁶ And the streams evaporate, and are impoverished, and the waterways of lower Egypt drain. The reeds and the weeds are withered." ⁷ Naked places are on the waterway, at the mouth of the waterway, and all that sown by the waterway is drying, and it is whisked away, and is not." ⁸ And the fishers complain, and mourn do all flingers of fishhooks into the waterway, and the spreaders of a dragnet on the surface of the waters are enfeebled." ⁹ And ashamed are the cultivators of yellow flax, and the weavers of pale cotton." ¹⁰ And its settlers become crushed. All workers for hire are marshy of soul. ¹¹ Yea! Foolish are the chiefs of Zoan, the wise counselors of Pharaoh give brutish counsel. How will you say to Pharaoh, "I am a son of the wise, a son of former kings"? ¹² Whereat, indeed, are your wise? And, pray, will they tell to you, and will they know what Yahweh of hosts counsels over Egypt? ¹³ Foolish are the chiefs of Zoan! Lured away are the chiefs of Noph! They lead Egypt astray, the corner stone of its tribes." ¹⁴ Yahweh blends within it a depraved spirit. They lead Egypt astray in its every deed, as a drunkard strays in his vomit." ¹⁵ And not coming to Egypt is work, which head or tail, frond or rush shall do." ¹⁶ In that day Egypt shall become as wives, and tremble, and be afraid in view of the wave of the hand of Yahweh of hosts, which He will wave over it." ¹⁷ And it comes that the ground of Judah is to Egypt for giddiness. Everyone to whom they shall mention it will be afraid, in view of the counsel of Yahweh of hosts, which He shall counsel against them." ¹⁸ In that day, five cities in the land of Egypt shall come to speak the lip of Canaan, and swear to Yahweh of hosts. "A devoted city,will be said of one." ¹⁹ In that day there shall be an altar to Yahweh in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a monument beside its boundary to Yahweh." ²⁰ And it comes to be for a sign for the eon, and for a testimony to Yahweh of hosts in the land of Egypt. In case they will cry to Yahweh in view of their oppressors, then He will send them a saviour, and He will descend, and rescue them." ²¹ Then Yahweh shall be known to Egypt, and Egypt shall know Yahweh in that day, and they serve with sacrifice and approach present, and vow a vow to Yahweh and pay it." ²² And Yahweh struck Egypt with a great stroke, yet, heal, yea He will heal them. And they return unto Yahweh. And He is entreated for them and heals them." ²³ In that day a highway will come from Egypt to Assyria, and Assyria comes into Egypt, and Egypt goes into Assyria. And Egypt serves with Assyria." ²⁴ In that day Israel shall become third to Egypt and to Assyria. They shall be a blessing within the earth, ²⁵ who are blessed by Yahweh of hosts, who says, "Blessed be My people, Egypt, and the making of My hands, Assyria, and My allotment, Israel."