Isaiah 19:2

Isaiah 19:2

Proclamation Against Egypt

1 The ^aburden against Egypt.
Behold, the Lord ^brides on a swift cloud,
And will come into Egypt;
^cThe idols of Egypt will¹ totter at His presence,
And the heart of Egypt will melt in its midst.

2 “I will ^aset Egyptians against Egyptians;
Everyone will fight against his brother,
And everyone against his neighbor,
City against city, kingdom against kingdom.

3 The spirit of Egypt will fail in its midst;
I will destroy their counsel,
And they will ^aconsult the idols and the charmers,
The mediums and the sorcerers.

4 And the Egyptians I will give
^aInto the hand of a cruel master,
And a fierce king will rule over them,”
Says the Lord, the Lord of hosts.

5 ^aThe waters will fail from the sea,
And the river will be wasted and dried up.

6 The rivers will turn foul;
The brooks ^aof defense will be emptied and dried up;
The reeds and rushes will wither.

7 The papyrus reeds by¹ the River, by the mouth of the River,
And everything sown by the River,
Will wither, be driven away, and be no more.

8 The fishermen also will mourn;
All those will lament who cast hooks into the River,
And they will languish who spread nets on the waters.

9 Moreover those who work in ^afine flax
And those who weave fine fabric will be ashamed;

10 And its foundations will be broken.
All who make wages will be troubled of soul.

11 Surely the princes of ^aZoan are fools;
Pharaoh’s wise counselors give foolish counsel.
^bHow do you say to Pharaoh, “I am the son of the wise,
The son of ancient kings?”

12 ^aWhere are they?
Where are your wise men?
Let them tell you now,
And let them know what the Lord of hosts has ^bpurposed against Egypt.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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set—stir up. GESENIUS translates, "arm."

Egyptians against the Egyptians—Lower against Upper: and Saitic against both. (See Isaiah 3:10). NEWTON refers it to the civil wars between Apries and Amasis at the time of Nebuchadnezzar's invasion; also between Tachos, Nectanebus, and the Mendesians, just before Ochus subdued Egypt.

kingdom against kingdom—The Septuagint has "nome against nome"; Egypt was divided into forty-two nomes or districts.

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