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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Isaiah 19 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/isaiah/19.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/isaiah/19-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > Isaiah 19</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../isaiah/18.htm" title="Isaiah 18">◄</a> Isaiah 19 <a href="../isaiah/20.htm" title="Isaiah 20">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">God Will Punish Egypt</h3><p class="par"><span class="v23_19_1"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.19.1" class="v23_19_1">1</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.19.1!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> This is a message about Egypt.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_19_1">The <span class="nd">Lord</span> is coming to Egypt, riding swiftly on a cloud. The Egyptian idols tremble before him, and the people of Egypt lose their courage. </span><span class="v23_19_2"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.19.2" class="v23_19_2">2</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> says, “I will stir up civil war in Egypt and turn brother against brother and neighbor against neighbor. Rival cities will fight each other, and rival kings will struggle for power. </span><span class="v23_19_3"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.19.3" class="v23_19_3">3</span>I am going to frustrate the plans of the Egyptians and destroy their morale. They will ask their idols to help them, and they will go and consult mediums and ask the spirits of the dead for advice. </span><span class="v23_19_4"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.19.4" class="v23_19_4">4</span>I will hand the Egyptians over to a tyrant, to a cruel king who will rule them. I, the <span class="nd">Lord</span> Almighty, have spoken.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_19_5"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.19.5" class="v23_19_5">5</span>The water will be low in the Nile, and the river will gradually dry up. </span><span class="v23_19_6"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.19.6" class="v23_19_6">6</span>The channels of the river will stink as they slowly go dry. Reeds and rushes will wither, </span><span class="v23_19_7"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.19.7" class="v23_19_7">7</span>and all the crops planted along the banks of the Nile will dry up and be blown away. </span><span class="v23_19_8"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.19.8" class="v23_19_8">8</span>Everyone who earns a living by fishing in the Nile will groan and cry; their hooks and their nets will be useless. </span><span class="v23_19_9"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.19.9" class="v23_19_9">9</span>Those who make linen cloth will be in despair; </span><span class="v23_19_10"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.19.10" class="v23_19_10">10</span>weavers and skilled workers will be broken and depressed.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_19_11"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.19.11" class="v23_19_11">11</span>The leaders of the city of Zoan are fools! Egypt's wisest people give stupid advice! How do they dare to tell the king that they are successors to the ancient scholars and kings? </span><span class="v23_19_12"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.19.12" class="v23_19_12">12</span>King of Egypt, where are those clever advisers of yours? Perhaps they can tell you what plans the <span class="nd">Lord</span> Almighty has for Egypt. </span><span class="v23_19_13"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.19.13" class="v23_19_13">13</span>The leaders of Zoan and Memphis are fools. They were supposed to lead the nation, but they have misled it. </span><span class="v23_19_14"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.19.14" class="v23_19_14">14</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> has made them give confusing advice. As a result, Egypt does everything wrong and staggers like a drunk slipping on his own vomit. </span><span class="v23_19_15"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.19.15" class="v23_19_15">15</span>No one in Egypt, rich or poor, important or unknown, can offer help.</span></p><h3 class="s">Egypt Will Worship the <span class="nd">Lord</span></h3><p class="par"><span class="v23_19_16"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.19.16" class="v23_19_16">16</span>A time is coming when the people of Egypt will be as timid as women. They will tremble in terror when they see that the <span class="nd">Lord</span> Almighty has stretched out his hand to punish them. </span><span class="v23_19_17"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.19.17" class="v23_19_17">17</span>The people of Egypt will be terrified of Judah every time they are reminded of the fate that the <span class="nd">Lord</span> Almighty has prepared for them.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_19_18"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.19.18" class="v23_19_18">18</span>When that time comes, the Hebrew language will be spoken in five Egyptian cities. The people there will take their oaths in the name of the <span class="nd">Lord</span> Almighty. One of the cities will be called, “City of the Sun.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_19_19"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.19.19" class="v23_19_19">19</span>When that time comes, there will be an altar to the <span class="nd">Lord</span> in the land of Egypt and a stone pillar dedicated to him at the Egyptian border. </span><span class="v23_19_20"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.19.20" class="v23_19_20">20</span>They will be symbols of the <span class="nd">Lord</span> Almighty's presence in Egypt. When the people there are oppressed and call out to the <span class="nd">Lord</span> for help, he will send someone to rescue them. </span><span class="v23_19_21"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.19.21" class="v23_19_21">21</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> will reveal himself to the Egyptian people, and then they will acknowledge and worship him, and bring him sacrifices and offerings. They will make solemn promises to him and do what they promise. </span><span class="v23_19_22"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.19.22" class="v23_19_22">22</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> will punish the Egyptians, but then he will heal them. They will turn to him, and he will hear their prayers and heal them.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_19_23"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.19.23" class="v23_19_23">23</span>When that time comes, there will be a highway between Egypt and Assyria. The people of these two countries will travel back and forth between them, and the two nations will worship together. </span><span class="v23_19_24"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.19.24" class="v23_19_24">24</span>When that time comes, Israel will rank with Egypt and Assyria, and these three nations will be a blessing to all the world. </span><span class="v23_19_25"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.19.25" class="v23_19_25">25</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> Almighty will bless them and say, “I will bless you, Egypt, my people; you, Assyria, whom I created; and you, Israel, my chosen people.”</span></p></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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