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Isaiah 19

2 The destruction of the Egyptians by the Assyrians. 18 Of their conversion to the Lord.
1.The aburden of Egypt. Behold, the Lord brideth 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 middes of her.
2.And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians, so every one shall cfight against his brother, and every one against his neighbour, city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
3.And the dspirit of Egypt shall fail in the middes of her, and I will destroy their counsel, and they shall seek at the idols, and at the sorcerers, and at them that have spirits of divination, and at the southsayers.
4.And I will deliver the Egyptians into the hand of cruel lords, and a mighty King shall rule over them, saith the Lord God of hostes.
5.Then the waters of the sea shall efail, and the river shall be dried up, and wasted.
6.And the rivers fshall go far away: the rivers of defence shalbe emptied and dried up: the reeds and flagges shalbe cut down.
7.The grass in the river, and at the ghead of the rivers, and all that groweth by the river, shall wither, and be driven away, and be no more.
8.The fishers also shall hmourn, and all they that cast angle into the river, shall lament, and they that spread their net upon the waters, shalbe weakened.
9.Moreover, they that work in flax of divers sorts, shalbe confounded, and they that weave nets.
10.For their nets shalbe broken, and all they, that make ponds, shalbe heavy in heart.
11.Surely the princes of iZoán are fools: the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaóh is become foolish: how say ye unto Pharaóh, I kam the son of the wise? I am the son of the ancient Kings?
12.Where are now thy wise men, that they may tell thee, or may know what the Lord of hostes hath determined against Egypt?
13.The princes of Zoán are become fools: the princes of lNoph are deceived, they have deceived Egypt, even the mcorners of the tribes thereof.
14.The Lord hath mingled among them the spirit nof errors and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man erreth in his vomit.
15.Neither shall there be any work in Egypt, which the head may odo, nor the tail, the branch nor the rush.
16.In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: for it shalbe afraid and fear because of the moving of the hand of the Lord of hostes, which he shaketh over it.
17.And the land of Judah shalbe a fear punto Egypt every one that maketh mention of it, shalbe afraid thereat, because of the counsel of the Lord of hostes, which he hath determined upon it.
18.In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt qspeak the language of Canáan, and shall rswear by the Lord of hostes: one shalbe called the city of sdestruction.
19.In that day shall the altar of the Lord be in the middes of the land of Egypt, and ta pillar by the border thereof unto the Lord.
20.And it shalbe for a sign and for a witness unto the Lord of hostes in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the Lord, because of the oppressors, and he shall send them ua Saviour and a great man, and shall deliver them.
21.And the Lord shalbe knowen of the Egyptians, and the Egyptians shall know the Lord in that day, and do xsacrifice and oblation, and shall vow vowes unto the Lord, and perform them.
22.So the Lord shall smite Egypt, he shall smite and heal it: for he shall return unto the Lord, and he shalbe intreated of them and shall heal them.
23.In that day shall there be a path from yEgypt to Asshúr, and Asshúr shall come into Egypt, and Egypt into Asshúr, so the Egyptians shall worship with Asshúr.
24.In that day shall Israél be the third with Egypt and Asshúr, even a blessing in the middes of the land.
25.For the Lord of hostes shall bless it, saying, Blessed be my people Egypt and Asshúr, the work of mine hands, and Israél mine inheritance.

Notes

1-a.
Read Ch. 13.1.
1-b.
Because the Egyptians trusted in the defence of their country, in the multitude of their idols, and in the valiantness of their men, the Lord shows that he will come over all their munitions in a swift cloud, and that their idols shall tremble at his coming, and that men’s hearts shall faint.
2-c.
As he caused the Ammonites, Moabites, and Idumeans to kill one another, when they came to destroy the Church of God, 2 Chron. 20.22, Ch. 49.26.
3-d.
Meaning, their policy, and wisdom.
5-e.
He shows that the sea and Nilus their great river, whereby they thought themselves most sure, should not be able to defend them from his anger, but that he would send the Assyrians among them that should keep them under as slaves.
6-f.
For Nilus ran into the sea by seven streams, as though they were so many rivers.
7-g.
The Ebrewe word is mouth, whereby they mean the spring, out of the which the water gushes as out of a mouth.
8-h.
The Scriptures use to describe the destruction of a country by taking away of the commodities thereof, as by vines, flesh, fish, and such other things, whereby countries are enriched.
11-i.
Called also Tanes, a famous city upon Nilus.
11-k.
He notes the flatterers of Pharaoh who persuaded the King that he was wise, and noble, and that his house was most ancient, and so he flattered himself, saying, I am wise.
13-l.
Or Memphis, others Alexandria, and now called the great Caira.
13-m.
The principle upholders thereof are the chiefest cause of their destruction.
14-n.
For the spirit of wisdom he has made them drunken and giddy with the spirit of error.
15-o.
Neither the great nor the small, the strong nor the weak.
17-p.
Considering that through their occasion the Jews made not God their defence, but put their trust in them, and were therefore now punished, they shall fear lest the like light upon them.
18-q.
Shall make one confession of faith with the people of God by the speech of Canaan meaning, the language, wherein God was then served.
18-r.
Shall renounce their superstitions and protest to serve God aright.
18-s.
Meaning, of six cities fives shall serve God, and the sixt remain in their wickedness and so of the sixt part there should be but one lost.
19-t.
There shall be evident signs and tokens, that God’s religion is there which manner of speech is taken of the Patriarchs and ancient times, when God had not as yet appointed the place, and full manner how he would be worshipped.
20-u.
This declares that this prophecy should be accomplished in the time of Christ.
21-x.
By these ceremonies he comprehends the spiritual service under Christ.
23-y.
By these two nations, which were then chief enemies of the Church, he shows that the Gentiles, and the Jews should be joined together in one faith and religion, and should be all one fold under Christ their shepherd.