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they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the
wizards.
4
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 L
ORD
of hosts.
5
And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the
river shall be wasted and dried up.
6
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.
7
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.
8
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.
9
Moreover they that work
in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.
10
And they shall be broken in the
purposes thereof, all that make sluices
and
ponds for fish.
11
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?
12
Where
are
they? where
are
thy wise
men?
and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the L
ORD
of
hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.
13
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.
14
The
L
ORD
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.
15
Neither shall there be
any
work for
Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.
16
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 L
ORD
of hosts, which he
shaketh over it.
17
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 L
ORD
of hosts, which he hath
determined against it.
18
In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to
the L
ORD
of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction.
19
In that day shall there be an altar
to the L
ORD
in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the L
ORD
.
20
And
it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the L
ORD
of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall
cry unto the L
ORD
because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and
he shall deliver them.
21
And the L
ORD
shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the
L
ORD
in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the L
ORD
, and
perform
it.
22
And the L
ORD
shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal
it:
and they shall return
even
to the L
ORD
, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them.
23
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.
24
In that
day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria,
even
a blessing in the midst of the land:
25
Whom the L
ORD
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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