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