KJVAnd they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.
And the pillars of Egypt shall be broken in pieces; all they that work for hire shall be grieved in soul.
The workers in cloth will be dejected, and all the hired workers will be sick at heart.
And its foundations have been smitten, All making wages are afflicted in soul.
And her pillars shall be broken in pieces, and all workers for hire shall be sad of soul.
Isaiah — Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament).
2. And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians. Here he describes more particularly the calamity which the Lord had determined to bring on Egypt. By the expression, I will set, he means the internal struggles, in which those who ought to be mutual defenders cut down one another;…