¹ The burden against Egypt: Behold, the LORD rides on a swift cloud and comes into Egypt. And the idols of Egypt shall tremble at His presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in its midst.

² And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians; and they shall fight each man against his brother, and each against his neighbor; city against city, kingdom against kingdom.

³ And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst of it, and I will destroy its wisdom. And they shall seek to idols, and to the enchanters, and to the mediums, and to the future-tellers.

⁴ And I will shut up Egypt into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, says the Lord, The LORD of hosts.

⁵ And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall fail and dry up.

⁶ And rivers shall be fouled; the Nile of Egypt will languish and dry up; the reed and the rush shall decay.

⁷ Bare places shall be at the Nile, by the mouth of the Nile, and everything sown by the Nile shall dry up, driven away, and be no more.

⁸ The fishermen also shall mourn, and all who drop a hook into the Nile shall wail, and those who spread nets on the waters shall droop.

⁹ And the workers in fine flax, and the weavers of white cloth shall be ashamed.

¹⁰ And her foundations shall be broken, and all who make wages shall be sad of soul.

¹¹ Surely the rulers of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counselors of Pharaoh has become brutish. How do you say to Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

¹² Where are they? Where are your wise men? And let them tell you now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts has planned against Egypt.

¹³ The rulers of Zoan have become fools, the rulers of Noph are deceived; they have also caused Egypt to go astray, the chief of her tribes.

¹⁴ The LORD has mixed a perverse spirit in its midst; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in all its work, like a drunkard staggers in his vomit.

¹⁵ And Egypt shall have no work that the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.

¹⁶ In that day Egypt shall 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.

¹⁷ And the land of Judah shall be a terror to Egypt; everyone who mentions it shall be afraid toward it, because of the purpose of the LORD of hosts, which He has purposed against it.

¹⁸ In that day five cities in the land of Egypt shall speak the language of Canaan and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called the City of Ruin.

¹⁹ In that day there shall be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at its border to the LORD.

²⁰ And it shall be for a sign and for a witness to the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt. For they shall cry to the LORD because of the oppressors, and He shall send them a deliverer, and a great one, and will deliver them.

²¹ And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and Egypt shall know the LORD in that day, and shall offer sacrifice and offering; and vow a vow to the LORD, and repay.

²² And the LORD shall strike Egypt; He shall strike and heal; and they shall return to the LORD, and He shall hear them and shall heal them.

²³ In that day there shall be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and Assyria shall come into Egypt, and Egypt into Assyria, and Egypt shall serve with Assyria.

²⁴ In that day Israel shall be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the land;

²⁵ whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be My people Egypt, and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel My inheritance.