Isaie 19

¹The burden of Ægypt. Behold our Lord will ascend upon a swift cloud, and will enter into Ægypt, and the idols of Ægypt shall be moved at his presence, & the heart of Ægypt shall melt in the midst thereof.

²And I will make the Ægyptians to run together against the Ægyptians: and a man shall fight against his brother, & every man against his friend, city against city, kingdom against kingdom.

³And the spirit of Ægypt shall be broken in the bowels thereof, & I will overthrow their counsel headlong: and they shall ask their idols, & their diviners, and Pythons, and Soothsayers.

⁴And I will deliver Ægypt into the hand of cruel masters, and a strong king shall rule over them, saith our Lord the God of hosts.

⁵And the water of the sea shall be dried up, & the river shall be made desolate, and dry.

⁶And the rivers shall fail: the rivers of the rampiers shall be diminished, & dried up. The reed and bulrush shall wither:

⁷the channel of the river shall be spoiled of his fountain, & all sown corn field that is watered shall be dried up, it shall wither, and shall not be.

⁸And the fishers shall lament, & all that cast angle into the river shall mourn, and they that spread net upon the face of the water shall pine away.

⁹They shall be confounded that wrought twisting flax, combing and weaving fine things.

¹⁰And the watered places thereof shall be dry, all they that made pools to take fishes.

¹¹The Princes of Tanis are fools, the wise counsellers of Pharao have given unwise counsel: how say ye unto Pharao: I am the son of the wise, the son of the ancient kings?

¹²Where are now thy wise men? Let them tell thee, & shew what the Lord of hosts hath thought concerning Ægypt.

¹³The Princes of Tanis are become fools, the Princes of Memphis are withered away, they have deceived Ægypt, the corner of the peoples thereof.

¹⁴Our Lord hath mingled in the midst thereof the spirit of gladness: and they have made Ægypt to err in every work thereof, as he erreth that is drunk and vomiteth.

¹⁵And Ægypt shall have no work, to make the head and the tail, the perverter and restrainer.

¹⁶In that day Ægypt shall be as women, & they shall be astonished, & shall be afraid at the face of the moving of the hand of the Lord of hosts, which he shall move over it.

¹⁷And the land of Juda shall be a fear to Ægypt: every one that shall remember it, shall quake at the face of the counsel of the Lord of hosts, which he hath thought concerning it.

¹⁸In that day there shall be five cities in the land of Ægypt, speaking the tongue of Chanaan, and swearing by the Lord of hosts: one shall be called the city of the sun.

¹⁹In that day there shall be an altar of our Lord in the midst of the land of Ægypt, and a title of our Lord by the border thereof:

²⁰it shall be for a sign, and for a testimony to the Lord of hosts in the land of Ægypt. For they shall cry to our Lord at the presence of the afflicter, and he shall send them a saviour and defender to deliver them.

²¹And our Lord shall be known of Ægypt, & the Ægyptians shall know our Lord in that day, and shall worship him in hosts and in gifts: and they shall vow vows to our Lord, and pay them.

²²And our Lord shall smite Ægypt with a stroke, and heal it, and they shall return to our Lord, and he shall be pacified towards them, and heal them.

²³In that day there shall be a way from Ægypt to the Assyrians, and the Assyrian shall enter into Ægypt, and the Ægyptians to the Assyrians, & the Ægyptians shall serve Assur.

²⁴In that day shall Israel be a third to the Ægyptian and the Assyrian: a blessing in the midst of the earth,

²⁵which the Lord of hosts hath blessed, saying: Blessed be my people of Ægypt, and the work of my hands to the Assyrian: but Israel is mine inheritance.