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1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD [Yahweh] rides upon a swift cloud, and will come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt will be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt will melt in the midst of it.
2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they will fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbor; city against city, [and] kingdom against kingdom.
3 And the spirit of Egypt will fail in the midst of it; and I will destroy the counsel of it: and they will seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king will rule over them, says the Lord, the LORD [Yahweh] of hosts.
5 And the waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted and dried up.
6 And they will turn the rivers far away; [and] the brooks of defence will be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags will wither.
7 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, will wither, be driven away, and be no [more].
8 The fishers also will mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks will lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters will languish.
9 Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, will be confounded.
10 And they will be broken in the purposes of it, all that make sluices [and] ponds for fish.
11 Surely the princes of Zoan [are] fools, the counsel of the wise counselors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say you to Pharaoh, I [am] the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
12 Where [are] they? where [are] your wise [men]? and let them tell you now, and let them know what the LORD [Yahweh] of hosts has purposed upon Egypt.
13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, [even they that are] the stay of the tribes of it.
14 The LORD [Yahweh] has mingled a perverse spirit in the midst of it: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work of it, as a drunken [man] staggers in his vomit.
15 Neither will there be [any] work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.
16 In that day will Egypt be like to women: and it will be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD [Yahweh] of hosts, which he shakes over it.
17 And the land of Judah will be a terror to Egypt, every one that makes mention of it will be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD [Yahweh] of hosts, which he has determined against it.
18 In that day will five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD [Yahweh] of hosts; one will be called, The city of destruction.
19 In that day will there be an altar to the LORD [Yahweh] in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border of it to the LORD [Yahweh].
20 And it will be for a sign and for a witness to the LORD [Yahweh] of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they will cry to the LORD [Yahweh] because of the oppressors, and he will send them a savior, and a great one, and he will deliver them.
21 And the LORD [Yahweh] will be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know the LORD [Yahweh] in that day, and will sacrifice and oblation; yes, they will vow a vow to the LORD [Yahweh], and perform [it].
22 And the LORD [Yahweh] will smite Egypt: he will smite and heal [it]: and they will return [even] to the LORD [Yahweh], and he will be entreated of them, and will heal them.
23 In that day will there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian will come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians will serve with the Assyrians.
24 In that day will Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, [even] a blessing in the midst of the land:
25 Whom the LORD [Yahweh] of hosts will bless, saying, Blessed [be] Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.