Isaiah
| Isaiah 19:1 |
The burden of Egypt. Behold, Jehovah rideth upon a swift cloud, and cometh unto Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall tremble at his presence; and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it. |
| Isaiah 19:2 |
And I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbor; city against city, [and] kingdom against kingdom. |
| Isaiah 19:3 |
And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst of it; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek unto the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards. |
| Isaiah 19:4 |
And I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts. |
| Isaiah 19:5 |
And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and become dry. |
| Isaiah 19:6 |
And the rivers shall become foul; the streams of Egypt shall be diminished and dried up; the reeds and flags shall wither away. |
| Isaiah 19:7 |
The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and all the sown fields of the Nile, shall become dry, be driven away, and be no more. |
| Isaiah 19:8 |
And the fishers shall lament, and all they that cast angle into the Nile shall mourn, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish. |
| Isaiah 19:9 |
Moreover they that work in combed flax, and they that weave white cloth, shall be confounded. |
| Isaiah 19:10 |
And the pillars [of Egypt] shall be broken in pieces; all they that work for hire [shall be] grieved in soul. |
| Isaiah 19:11 |
The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the counsel of the wisest counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings? |
| Isaiah 19:12 |
Where then are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now; and let them know what Jehovah of hosts hath purposed concerning Egypt. |
| Isaiah 19:13 |
The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Memphis are deceived; they have caused Egypt to go astray, that are the corner-stone of her tribes. |
| Isaiah 19:14 |
Jehovah hath mingled a spirit of perverseness in the midst of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit. |
| Isaiah 19:15 |
Neither shall there be for Egypt any work, which head or tail, palm-branch or rush, may do. |
| Isaiah 19:16 |
In that day shall the Egyptians be like unto women; and they shall tremble and fear because of the shaking of the hand of Jehovah of hosts, which he shaketh over them. |
| Isaiah 19:17 |
And the land of Judah shall become a terror unto Egypt; every one to whom mention is made thereof shall be afraid, because of the purpose of Jehovah of hosts, which he purposeth against it. |
| Isaiah 19:18 |
In that day there shall be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan, and swear to Jehovah of hosts; one shall be called The city of destruction. |
| Isaiah 19:19 |
In that day shall there be an altar to Jehovah in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to Jehovah. |
| Isaiah 19:20 |
And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto Jehovah of hosts in the land of Egypt; for they shall cry unto Jehovah because of oppressors, and he will send them a saviour, and a defender, and he will deliver them. |
| Isaiah 19:21 |
And Jehovah shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know Jehovah in that day; yea, they shall worship with sacrifice and oblation, and shall vow a vow unto Jehovah, and shall perform it. |
| Isaiah 19:22 |
And Jehovah will smite Egypt, smiting and healing; and they shall return unto Jehovah, and he will be entreated of them, and will heal them. |
| Isaiah 19:23 |
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 worship with the Assyrians. |
| Isaiah 19:24 |
In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth; |
| Isaiah 19:25 |
for that Jehovah of hosts hath blessed them, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance. |
| Isaiah 20:1 |
In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it; |
| Isaiah 20:2 |
at that time Jehovah spake by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go, and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put thy shoe from off thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot. |
| Isaiah 20:3 |
And Jehovah said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning Ethiopia; |
| Isaiah 20:4 |
so shall the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt, and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt. |
| Isaiah 20:5 |
And they shall be dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory. |
| Isaiah 20:6 |
And the inhabitant of this coast-land shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and we, how shall we escape? |
| Isaiah 21:1 |
The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it cometh from the wilderness, from a terrible land. |
| Isaiah 21:2 |
A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous man dealeth treacherously, and the destroyer destroyeth. Go up, O Elam; besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease. |
| Isaiah 21:3 |
Therefore are my loins filled with anguish; pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail: I am pained so that I cannot hear; I am dismayed so that I cannot see. |
| Isaiah 21:4 |
My heart fluttereth, horror hath affrighted me; the twilight that I desired hath been turned into trembling unto me. |
| Isaiah 21:5 |
They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink: rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield. |
| Isaiah 21:6 |
For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman: let him declare what he seeth: |
| Isaiah 21:7 |
and when he seeth a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of asses, a troop of camels, he shall hearken diligently with much heed. |
| Isaiah 21:8 |
And he cried as a lion: O Lord, I stand continually upon the watch-tower in the day-time, and am set in my ward whole nights; |
| Isaiah 21:9 |
and, behold, here cometh a troop of men, horsemen in pairs. And he answered and said, Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the graven images of her gods are broken unto the ground. |
| Isaiah 21:10 |
O thou my threshing, and the grain of my floor! that which I have heard from Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you. |
| Isaiah 21:11 |
The burden of Dumah. One calleth unto me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? |
| Isaiah 21:12 |
The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye: turn ye, come. |
| Isaiah 21:13 |
The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye caravans of Dedanites. |
| Isaiah 21:14 |
Unto him that was thirsty they brought water; the inhabitants of the land of Tema did meet the fugitives with their bread. |
| Isaiah 21:15 |
For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war. |
| Isaiah 21:16 |
For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Kedar shall fail; |
| Isaiah 21:17 |
and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be few; for Jehovah, the God of Israel, hath spoken it. |
| Isaiah 22:1 |
The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops? |
| Isaiah 22:2 |
O thou that art full of shoutings, a tumultuous city, a joyous town; thy slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle. |