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900 Prophecy of Isaias

12 Where are now thy wise men? let them to the Lord, and he shall be pacified towards
tell thee, and shew what the Lord of hosts hath them, and heal them.
purposed upon Egypt. 23 In that day there shall be a way from Egypt
13 The princes of Tanis are become fools, the to the Assyrians, and the Assyrian shall enter
princes of Memphis are gone astray, they have into Egypt, and the Egyptian to the Assyrians,
deceived Egypt, the stay of the people thereof. and the Egyptians shall serve the Assyrian.
14 The Lord hath mingled in the midst thereof 24 In that day shall Israel be the third to the
the spirit of giddiness: and they have caused Egyptian and the Assyrian: a blessing in the
Egypt to err in all its works, as a drunken man midst of the land,
staggereth and vomiteth. 25 Which the Lord of hosts hath blessed, say-
15 And there shall be no work for Egypt, to ing: Blessed be my people of Egypt, and the
make head or tail, him that bendeth down, or work of my hands to the Assyrian: but Israel is
that holdeth back. my inheritance.
16 In that day Egypt shall be like unto women,
and they shall be amazed, and afraid, because of
the moving of the hand of the Lord of hosts, Chapter 20

which he shall move over it.
17 And the land of Juda shall be a terror to In the year that Tharthan entered into Azotus,
Egypt: everyone that shall remember it shall when Sargon the king of the Assyrians had sent
tremble because of the counsel of the Lord of him, and he had fought against Azotus, and had
hosts, which he hath determined concerning it. taken it:
18 In that day there shall be five cities in 2 At that same time the Lord spoke by the
the land of Egypt, speaking the language of hand of Isaias the son of Amos, saying Go, and
Chanaan, and swearing by the Lord of hosts: one loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and take
shall be called the city of the sun. off thy shoes from thy feet. And he did so, and
19 In that day there shall be an altar of the went naked, and barefoot.
Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a 3 And the Lord said: As my servant Isaias
monument of the Lord at the borders thereof: hath walked, naked and barefoot, it shall be a
20 It shall be for a sign, and for a testimony to sign and a wonder of three years upon Egypt,
the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt. For they and upon Ethiopia,
shall cry to the Lord because of the oppressor, 4 So shall the king of the Assyrians lead away
and he shall send them a Saviour and a defender the prisoners of Egypt, and the captivity of
to deliver them. Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot,
21 And the Lord shall be known by Egypt, with their buttocks uncovered to the shame of
and the Egyptians shall know the Lord in that Egypt.
day, and shall worship him with sacrifices and 5 And they shall be afraid, and ashamed of
offerings: and they shall make vows to the Lord, Ethiopia their hope, and of Egypt their glory.
and perform them. 6 And the inhabitants of this isle shall say in
22 And the Lord shall strike Egypt with a that day: Lo this was our hope, to whom we fled
scourge, and shall heal it, and they shall return for help, to deliver us from the face of the king