The burden of Miżrayim. Behold, the Lord rides upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Miżrayim: and the idols of Miżrayim shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Miżrayim shall melt in the midst of it.

And I will set Miżrayim against Miżrayim: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

And the spirit of Miżrayim shall be emptied in his midst; and I will destroy his counsel: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the necromancers, and to the mediums, and to the wizards.

And I will give over Miżrayim to the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, says the Master, the Lord of hosts.

And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.

And the rivers shall become foul; and the canals of Mażor shall be diminished and dried up: the reeds and rushes shall wither.

The meadows by the River, by the mouth of the River, and every thing sown by the River, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.

The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the River shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall be wretched.

Moreover they that work in combed flax, and they that weave white cotton, shall be confounded.

And its foundations shall be broken; all that make dams shall be sad in their soul.

Surely the princes of Żo῾an are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Par῾o is become brutish: how can you say to Par῾o, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the Lord of hosts has purposed concerning Miżrayim.

The princes of Żo῾an are become fools, the princes of Nof are deceived; they have also made Miżrayim go astray, those that are the stay of its tribes.

The Lord has mingled a spirit of confusion in the midst of her: and they have caused Miżrayim to err in all its work, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.

Neither shall there be any work for Miżrayim which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.

In that day shall Miżrayim be like women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the Lord of hosts, which he shakes over it.

And the land of Yehuda shall be a trembling to Miżrayim, every one to whom one makes mention of that shall be afraid, because of the counsel of the Lord of hosts, which he has determined against it.

In that day there shall be five cities in the land of Miżrayim, speaking the language of Kena῾an and swearing by the Lord of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction.

In that day shall there be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Miżrayim, and a pillar at its border to the Lord.

And it shall be for a sign and for a witness to the Lord of hosts in the land of Miżrayim: for they shall cry to the Lord because of the oppressors, and he shall send them one that shall save them and plead for them, and he shall deliver them.

And the Lord shall be known to Miżrayim, and Miżrayim shall know the Lord on that day, and shall do sacrifice and meal offering; and they shall vow a vow to the Lord, and perform it.

And the Lord shall smite Miżrayim: he shall smite and heal: and they shall return to the Lord, and he shall be entreated of them, and shall heal them.

In that day there shall be a highway out of Miżrayim to Ashshur, and Ashshur shall come into Miżrayim, and Miżrayim to Ashshur, and Miżrayim shall worship with Ashshur.

In that day shall Yisra᾽el be the third with Miżrayim and with Ashshur, a blessing in the midst of the land:

whom the Lord of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Miżrayim my people, and Ashshur the work of my hands, and Yisra᾽el my inheritance.