Isaiah 19
Heavenly father
give us grace in the face of civil unrest, international catastrophe and natural disaster, to have hope for a day of blessing, when all people (Egypt, Assyria and Israel) will be blessed
1 “Behold, Yahweh rides on a swift cloud, and comes to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence; and the heart of Egypt will melt within it.
2 I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians, and they will fight everyone against his brother and his neighbour;
4 I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord. A fierce king will rule over them,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
5 The waters will fail from the sea, and the river (Nile) will be wasted and become dry.
14 Yahweh has mixed a spirit of perverseness in the middle of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in all of its works, like a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
16 In that day
* 17 the land of Judah will become a terror to Egypt
* 18 there will be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan, and swear to Yahweh of Armies.
* 21 Yahweh will be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know Yahweh in that day. 22 They will return to Yahweh, and he will be entreated by them, and will heal them.
* 23 the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians.
* 24 Israel, Egypt and Assyria will be a blessing within the earth; 25 because Yahweh of Armies has blessed them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.”