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An oracle concerning Egypt.
See, the
and comes to Egypt;
the idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence,
and the heart of the Egyptians will melt within them.
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I will stir up Egyptians against Egyptians,
and they will fight, one against the other,
neighbor against neighbor,
city against city, kingdom against kingdom;
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the spirit of the Egyptians within them will be emptied out,
and I will confound their plans;
they will consult the idols and the spirits of the dead
and the ghosts and the familiar spirits;
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I will deliver the Egyptians
into the hand of a hard master;
a fierce king will rule over them,
says the Sovereign, the
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The waters of the Nile will be dried up,
and the river will be parched and dry;
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its canals will become foul,
and the branches of Egypt's Nile will diminish and dry up,
reeds and rushes will rot away.
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There will be bare places by the Nile,
on the brink of the Nile;
and all that is sown by the Nile will dry up,
be driven away, and be no more.
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Those who fish will mourn;
all who cast hooks in the Nile will lament,
and those who spread nets on the water will languish.
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The workers in flax will be in despair,
and the carders and those at the loom will grow pale.
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Its weavers will be dismayed,
and all who work for wages will be grieved.
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The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish;
the wise counselors of Pharaoh give stupid counsel.
How can you say to Pharaoh,
"I am one of the sages,
a descendant of ancient kings"?
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Where now are your sages?
Let them tell you and make known
what the
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The princes of Zoan have become fools,
and the princes of Memphis are deluded;
those who are the cornerstones of its tribes
have led Egypt astray.
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The
a spirit of confusion;
and they have made Egypt stagger in all its doings
as a drunkard staggers around in vomit.
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Neither head nor tail, palm branch or reed,
will be able to do anything for Egypt.
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On that day the Egyptians will be like women, and tremble with fear before the hand that the
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On that day there will be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the
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On that day there will be an altar to the
23 On that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian will come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians.
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On that day Israel will be the third with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth,
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whom the