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The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORDrideth upon a swiftcloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
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And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour;city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
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And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
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Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wisecounsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancientkings?
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The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seducedEgypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.
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The LORD hath mingled a perversespirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
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In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fearbecause of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shaketh over it.
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And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath determined against it.
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In that day shall fivecities in the land of Egyptspeak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts;one shall be called, The city of destruction.
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And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORDbecause of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.
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And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day, and shall dosacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform it.
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And the LORD shall smiteEgypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them.
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In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.