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Isaiah 19:1
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The 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. |
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| Isaiah 19:2 |
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And 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. |
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| Isaiah 19:3 |
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And 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. |
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| Isaiah 19:4 |
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And 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. |
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| Isaiah 19:5 |
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And the waters shall fail from the sea, and
the river shall be wasted and dried up. |
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| Isaiah 19:6 |
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And they shall turn the rivers far away; and
the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall
wither. |
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| Isaiah 19:7 |
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The 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. |
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| Isaiah 19:8 |
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The 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. |
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| Isaiah 19:9 |
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Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they
that weave networks, shall be confounded. |
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| Isaiah 19:10 |
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And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof,
all that make sluices and ponds for fish. |
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| Isaiah 19:11 |
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Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel
of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh,
I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings? |
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| Isaiah 19:12 |
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Where 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. |
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| Isaiah 19:13 |
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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 thereof. |
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| Isaiah 19:14 |
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The 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. |
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| Isaiah 19:15 |
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Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which
the head or tail, branch or rush, may do. |
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| Isaiah 19:16 |
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In 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. |
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| Isaiah 19:17 |
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And 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. |
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| Isaiah 19:18 |
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In 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. |
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| Isaiah 19:19 |
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In 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. |
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| Isaiah 19:20 |
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And 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. |
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| Isaiah 19:21 |
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And 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. |
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| Isaiah 19:22 |
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And 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. |
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| Isaiah 19:23 |
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In 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. |
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| Isaiah 19:24 |
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In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt
and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land: |
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| Isaiah 19:25 |
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Whom 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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