Egypt receives its burden as Jehovah rides on a swift cloud into the land: idols tremble, Egyptian fights Egyptian, and a cruel lord takes the throne.

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Egypt receives its burden as Jehovah rides on a swift cloud into the land: idols tremble, Egyptian fights Egyptian, and a cruel lord takes the throne. The Nile itself fails (rivers foul, reeds wither, fishers lament, flax workers are confounded) while the princes of Zoan and Memphis, Pharaoh's vaunted counselors, prove fools under a spirit of perverseness Jehovah has mingled in her midst. Then six "in that day" oracles reverse the picture: Judah becomes a terror to Egypt, five Egyptian cities speak the language of Canaan, an altar to Jehovah stands in Egypt's midst, a saviour delivers those who cry to him, and Jehovah smites in order to heal. A highway joins Egypt to Assyria, and Israel stands third with both: "Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance."

Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory, Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary, John Wesley, Notes on the Old Testament and John Calvin, Commentaries.

Context

Prophecy · Isaiah — Isaiah overview

A. 1–15 The LORD Rides a Swift Cloud into Egypt
B. 16–22 Five Cities Speaking the Language of Canaan
C. 23–25 A Highway from Egypt to Assyria

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Isaiah 113 verses
- Isaiah 11:9They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the sea is full of water.
- Isaiah 11:15The LORD will devote to destruction the gulf of the Sea of Egypt; with a scorching wind He will sweep His hand over the Euphrates. He will split it into seven streams for men to cross with dry sandals.
- Isaiah 11:16There will be a highway for the remnant of His people who remain from Assyria, as there was for Israel when they came up from the land of Egypt.
- Read Isaiah 11 →
Ezekiel 302 verses
- Ezekiel 30:12I will make the streams dry up and sell the land to the wicked. By the hands of foreigners I will bring desolation upon the land and everything in it. I, the LORD, have spoken.
- Ezekiel 30:13This is what the Lord GOD says: I will destroy the idols and put an end to the images in Memphis. There will no longer be a prince in Egypt, and I will instill fear in that land.
- Read Ezekiel 30 →
Jeremiah 462 verses
- Jeremiah 46:19Pack your bags for exile, O daughter dwelling in Egypt! For Memphis will be laid waste, destroyed and uninhabited.
- Jeremiah 46:26I will deliver them into the hands of those who seek their lives—of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and his officers. But after this, Egypt will be inhabited as in days of old, declares the LORD.
- Read Jeremiah 46 →
Jeremiah 512 verses
- Jeremiah 51:30The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting; they sit in their strongholds. Their strength is exhausted; they have become like women. Babylon’s homes have been set ablaze, the bars of her gates are broken.
- Jeremiah 51:36Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Behold, I will plead your case and take vengeance on your behalf; I will dry up her sea and make her springs run dry.
- Read Jeremiah 51 →

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Romans 92 verses
- Romans 9:17For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”
- Romans 9:24including us, whom He has called not only from the Jews, but also from the Gentiles?
- Read Romans 9 →
Exodus 121 verse
- Exodus 12:12On that night I will pass through the land of Egypt and strike down every firstborn male, both man and beast, and I will execute judgment against all the gods of Egypt. I am the LORD.
- Read Exodus 12 →
Revelation 11 verse
- Revelation 1:7Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see Him—even those who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. So shall it be! Amen.
- Read Revelation 1 →
Judges 71 verse
- Judges 7:22And when the three hundred rams’ horns sounded, the LORD set all the men in the camp against one another with their swords. The army fled to Beth-shittah toward Zererah as far as the border of Abel-meholah near Tabbath.
- Read Judges 7 →

Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge and OpenBible.info.