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Isaiah 19:2-10

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A Message about Egypt

²“I will make Egyptian fight against Egyptian— brother against brother, neighbor against neighbor, city against city, province against province.

³The Egyptians will lose heart, and I will confuse their plans. They will plead with their idols for wisdom and call on spirits, mediums, and those who consult the spirits of the dead.

⁴I will hand Egypt over to a hard, cruel master. A fierce king will rule them,” says the Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.

⁵The waters of the Nile will fail to rise and flood the fields. The riverbed will be parched and dry.

⁶The canals of the Nile will dry up, and the streams of Egypt will stink with rotting reeds and rushes.

⁷All the greenery along the riverbank and all the crops along the river will dry up and blow away.

⁸The fishermen will lament for lack of work. Those who cast hooks into the Nile will groan, and those who use nets will lose heart.

⁹There will be no flax for the harvesters, no thread for the weavers.

¹⁰They will be in despair, and all the workers will be sick at heart.

Isaiah 19:2-10 (NLT)