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SEPTEMBER 14
The son of ancient kings?”
September 14 12 Where are they?
Where are your wise men?
Let them tell you now,
And let them know what the LORD of
Isaiah 19:1–20:6
hosts has purposed against Egypt.
19 The burden against Egypt. 13 The princes of Zoan have become fools;
The princes of Noph are deceived;
Behold, the LORD rides on a swift cloud, They have also deluded Egypt,
And will come into Egypt; Those who are the mainstay of its
The idols of Egypt will totter at His tribes.
presence, 14 The LORD has mingled a perverse spirit
And the heart of Egypt will melt in its in her midst;
midst. And they have caused Egypt to err in
all her work,
2 “I will set Egyptians against Egyptians;
Everyone will fight against As a drunken man staggers in his
vomit.
his brother, 15
And everyone against his neighbor, Neither will there be any work for
Egypt,
City against city, kingdom against Which the head or tail,
kingdom.
3 The spirit of Egypt will fail in its midst; Palm branch or bulrush, may do.
I will destroy their counsel, 16 In that day Egypt will be like women, and
And they will consult the idols and the will be afraid and fear because of the waving of
charmers, the hand of the LORD of hosts, which He waves
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The mediums and the sorcerers. over it. And the land of Judah will be a terror
4 And the Egyptians I will give to Egypt; everyone who makes mention of it
Into the hand of a cruel master, will be afraid in himself, because of the coun-
And a fierce king will rule over them,” sel of the LORD of hosts which He has deter-
Says the Lord, the LORD of hosts. mined against it.
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5 The waters will fail from the sea, In that day five cities in the land of Egypt
And the river will be wasted will speak the language of Canaan and swear
and dried up. by the LORD of hosts; one will be called the City
6 The rivers will turn foul; of Destruction.
19 In that day there will be an altar to the
The brooks of defense will be emptied
and dried up; LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a
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The reeds and rushes will wither. pillar to the LORD at its border. And it will be
7 The papyrus reeds by the River, for a sign and for a witness to the LORD of
by the mouth of the River, hosts in the land of Egypt; for they will cry to
And everything sown by the River, the LORD because of the oppressors, and He
Will wither, be driven away, and be no will send them a Savior and a Mighty One, and
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more. He will deliver them. Then the LORD will be
8 The fishermen also will mourn; known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know
All those will lament who cast hooks the LORD in that day, and will make sacrifice
into the River,
And they will languish who spread nets
on the waters.
9 Moreover those who work in fine flax 19:18 five cities. Humanly speaking, the
And those who weave fine fabric will chances of even one Egyptian city turning to
be ashamed; the Lord were remote, but divinely speaking,
And its foundations will be broken.
10 there will be 5 times that many. language of
All who make wages will be troubled Canaan. Egypt is to speak the language of
of soul. Judah. Not only are they to fear Judah (v. 17),
they are also to convert to Judah’s form of
Surely the princes of Zoan are fools; worship. swear by the LORD of hosts. Egypt
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Pharaoh’s wise counselors give foolish will “in that day”turn to God in a dramatic way.
counsel. This prophecy anticipates the personal reign
How do you say to Pharaoh, “I am the of the Davidic King on earth.
son of the wise,

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