Isaiah 19:15

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13 The princes of¹ Zoan have become fools;
^aThe princes of Noph are deceived;
They have also¹ deluded Egypt,
Those who are the¹ mainstay of its tribes.

14 The Lord has mingled ^aa perverse spirit in her midst;
And they have caused Egypt to err in all her work,
As a drunken man staggers in his vomit.

15 Neither will there be any work for Egypt,
Which ^athe head or tail,
Palm branch or bulrush, may do.

16 In that day Egypt will ^abe like women, and will be afraid and fear because of the waving of the hand of the Lord of hosts, ^bwhich He waves over it.

17 And the land of Judah will be a terror to Egypt; everyone who makes mention of it will be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the Lord of hosts which He has ^adetermined against it.

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Barnes' Notes

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Isaiah 19:15

Neither shall there be any work - The sense is, that there shall be such discord that no man, whether a prince, a politician, or a priest, shall be able to give any advice, or form any plan for the national safety and security, which shall be successful.

Which the head or tail - High or low; strong or weak: those in office and those out of office; all shall be dispirited and confounded. Rosenmuller understands by the head here, the "political" orders of the nation, and by the tail the "sacerdotal" ranks. But the meaning more probably is, the highest and the lowest ranks - all the politicians, and priests, and princes, on the one hand, as the prophet had just stated Isaiah 19:11-15; and all the artificers, fishermen, etc., on the other, as he had stated Isaiah 19:8-10. This verse, therefore, is a "summing up" of all he had said about the calamities that were coming upon them.

Branch or rush - See these words explained in the note at Isaiah 9:14.

**Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Isaiah 19:15:**

Job 7:12
Isaiah 9:14
Isaiah 19:15
Isaiah 19:18
Isaiah 49:2

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