Isaiah 19 is an oracle about Egypt which predicts God's judgement on Egypt through civil strife with Egyptian against Egyptian, brother against brother, neighbour against neighbour, city against city and kingdom against kingdom. Egypt will suffer economic failure with the drying up of the River Nile: "The river bed will be parched and dry.... the canals will stink... the fields along the Nile will be parched... the fishermen will be without work". Also Egypt's leaders will be failures: The officials of Zoan have become fools... the Lord has poured into them a spirit of dizziness... in that day the Egyptians will be like women and the land of Judah will bring terror to the Egyptians. But eventually Egypt will turn to the Lord and in that day the Egyptians, Assyrians and Israel will worship together.
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