![]() ![]() ![]() " The Lord rides upon a cloud, a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt. The gods of Egypt shall appear to them to be what they always really were, utterly unable to help them. To prevent all this mischief, Egypt must be mortified, and many ways God here tells them he will take to mortify them. Nor did they depend upon the power of God when at anytime they were in distress but Egypt was their confidence. While they kept up an alliance with Egypt, and it was a powerful ally, they stood not in awe of the judgments of God for against them they depended upon Egypt to protect them. Upon all occasions they trusted to Egypt for help ( ), and thither they fled, in disobedience to God's express command, when things were brought to the last extremity in their own country. Though the land of Egypt had of old been a house of bondage to the people of God, where they had been ruled with rigour, yet among the unbelieving Jews there still remained much of the humour of their fathers, who said, Let us make us a captain and return into Egypt. 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. 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. 15 Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do. 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. 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. 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. 10 And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish. 9 Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded. 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. 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. 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. 5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up. 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. 3 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. 2 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. Behold, the L ORD 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. Isa 19:8 | MHC | STEP | The Doom of Egypt. ![]()
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