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Isaiah 19
⁸ The fishermen will lament for lack of work. Those who cast hooks into the Nile will groan, and those who use nets will lose heart.
⁹ There will be no flax for the harvesters, no thread for the weavers.
¹⁰ They will be in despair, and all the workers will be sick at heart.
¹¹ What fools are the officials of Zoan! Their best counsel to the king of Egypt is stupid and wrong. Will they still boast to Pharaoh of their wisdom? Will they dare brag about all their wise ancestors?
¹² Where are your wise counselors, Pharaoh? Let them tell you what God plans, what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies is going to do to Egypt.
¹³ The officials of Zoan are fools, and the officials of Memphis are deluded. The leaders of the people have led Egypt astray.
¹⁴ The LORD has sent a spirit of foolishness on them, so all their suggestions are wrong. They cause Egypt to stagger like a drunk in his vomit.
¹⁵ There is nothing Egypt can do. All are helpless— the head and the tail, the noble palm branch and the lowly reed.
¹⁶ In that day the Egyptians will be as weak as women. They will cower in fear beneath the upraised fist of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.
¹⁷ Just to speak the name of Israel will terrorize them, for the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has laid out his plans against them.
¹⁸ In that day five of Egypt’s cities will follow the LORD of Heaven’s Armies. They will even begin to speak Hebrew, the language of Canaan. One of these cities will be Heliopolis, the City of the Sun.