Isaiah 19

Anarchy and Chaos and Killing!

19A Message concerning Egypt: Watch this! GOD riding on a fast-moving cloud, moving in on Egypt! The god-idols of Egypt shudder and shake, Egyptians paralyzed by panic.H4853H4714H3068H7392H7031H5645H935H4714H457H4714H5128H6440H3824H4714H4549H71302God says, "I'll make Egyptian fight Egyptian, brother fight brother, neighbor fight neighbor, City fight city, kingdom fight kingdom— anarchy and chaos and killing!H5526H4714H4714H3898H376H251H376H7453H5892H5892H4467H44673I'll knock the wind out of the Egyptians. They won't know coming from going. They'll go to their god-idols for answers; they'll conjure ghosts and hold s?nces, desperate for answers.H7307H4714H1238H7130H1104H6098H1875H457H328H178H30494But I'll turn the Egyptians over to a tyrant most cruel. I'll put them under the rule of a mean, merciless king." Decree of the Master, GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies.H853H4714H5534H3027H7186H113H5794H4428H4910H5002H113H3068H66355The River Nile will dry up, the riverbed baked dry in the sun.H4325H5405H3220H5104H2717H30016The canals will become stagnant and stink, every stream touching the Nile dry up. River vegetation will rot awayH2186H5104H2186H2975H4693H1809H2717H7070H5488H70607the banks of the Nile-baked clay, The riverbed hard and smooth, river grasses dried up and gone with the wind.H6169H2975H6310H2975H4218H2975H3001H50868Fishermen will complain that the fishing's been ruined.H1771H578H7993H2443H2975H56H6566H4365H6440H4325H5359Textile workers will be out of work, all weavers and workers in linen and cotton and woolH5647H8305H6593H707H2355H95410Dispirited, depressed in their forced idleness— everyone who works for a living, jobless.H1792H8356H6213H7938H99H531511The princes of Zoan are fools, the advisors of Pharaoh stupid. How could any of you dare tell Pharaoh, "Trust me: I'm wise. I know what's going on. Why, I'm descended from the old wisdom of Egypt"?H8269H6814H191H6098H2450H3289H6547H1197H559H6547H1121H2450H1121H6924H442812There's not a wise man or woman left in the country. If there were, one of them would tell you what GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies has in mind for Egypt.H335H645H2450H5046H3045H3068H6635H3289H471413As it is, the princes of Zoan are all fools and the princes of Memphis, dunces. The honored pillars of your society have led Egypt into detours and dead ends.H8269H6814H2973H8269H5297H5377H8582H4714H6438H762614GOD has scrambled their brains, Egypt's become a falling-down-in-his-own-vomit drunk.H3068H4537H5773H7307H7130H4714H8582H4639H7910H8582H689215Egypt's hopeless, past helping, a senile, doddering old fool.H4639H4714H7218H2180H3712H100H621316On that Day, Egyptians will be like hysterical schoolgirls, screaming at the first hint of action from GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies.H3117H4714H802H2729H6342H6440H8573H3027H3068H6635H513017Little Judah will strike terror in Egyptians! Say "Judah" to an Egyptian and see panic. The word triggers fear of the GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies' plan against Egypt.H127H3063H2283H4714H2142H6342H6440H6098H3068H6635H328918On that Day, more than one city in Egypt will learn to speak the language of faith and promise to follow GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies. One of these cities will be honored with the title "City of the Sun."H3117H2568H5892H776H4714H1696H8193H3667H7650H3068H6635H259H559H5892H204119On that Day, there will be a place of worship to GOD in the center of Egypt and a monument to GOD at its border.H3117H4196H3068H8432H776H4714H4676H681H1366H306820It will show how the GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies has helped the Egyptians. When they cry out in prayer to GOD because of oppressors, he'll send them help, a savior who will keep them safe and take care of them.H226H5707H3068H6635H776H4714H6817H3068H6440H3905H7971H3467H7227H533721GOD will openly show himself to the Egyptians and they'll get to know him on that Day. They'll worship him seriously with sacrifices and burnt offerings. They'll make vows and keep them.H3068H3045H4714H4714H3045H3068H3117H5647H2077H4503H5087H5088H3068H799922GOD will wound Egypt, first hit and then heal. Egypt will come back to GOD, and GOD will listen to their prayers and heal them, heal them from head to toe.H3068H5062H4714H5062H7495H7725H3068H6279H749523On that Day, there will be a highway all the way from Egypt to Assyria: Assyrians will have free range in Egypt and Egyptians in Assyria. No longer rivals, they'll worship together, Egyptians and Assyrians!H3117H4546H4714H804H804H935H4714H4714H804H4714H5647H80424On that Day, Israel will take its place alongside Egypt and Assyria, sharing the blessing from the center.H3117H3478H7992H4714H804H1293H7130H77625GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies, who blessed Israel, will generously bless them all: "Blessed be Egypt, my people! . . . Blessed be Assyria, work of my hands! . . . Blessed be Israel, my heritage!"H3068H6635H1288H559H1288H4714H5971H804H4639H3027H3478H5159