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1 The burden of Egypt Behold, Jehovah riding upon a swift cloud and coming to Egypt: and the vanities of Egypt moved to and fro from his face, and the heart of Egypt will melt in its midst. 2 And I aroused Egypt against Egypt, and they warred a man against his brother, and a man against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom. 3 And the spirit of Egypt was emptied in its midst, and its counsel I will destroy: and they sought to the vanities and to the mutterers, and to the necromancers, and to the wizards. 4 And I shut up Egypt into the hand of hard lords, and a strong king shall rule over them, says the Lord Jehovah of armies. 5 And the water failed from the sea, and the river will waste and dry up. 6 They cast away the rivers; the rivers of Egypt languished and dried up; the reed and the sedge pined away. 7 The naked places by the river upon the mouth of the river, and everything being sown by the river was dried up, driven away, and nothing of it. 8 And the fishermen groaned, and all casting the hook into the river mourned, and they spreading nets upon the face of the water, languished. 9 And they working hatcheled flax and they weaving white linens were ashamed. 10 And her pillars were broken in pieces, and all making wages, sorrowful in soul. 11 Also the chiefs of Zoan are foolish, the wise counseling Pharaoh the counsel became brutish: how shall ye say to Pharaoh, I the son of the wise, the son of kings of old? 12 Where are they? where thy wise? and they shall announce to thee now, and they shall make known what Jehovah shall counsel upon Egypt. 13 The chiefs of Zoan were foolish, the chiefs of Noph were deceived; and they caused Egypt to wander, the pinnacles of its tribes. Isaiah 19:1-13, Smith's Literal Translation. Public domain.
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