Isaiah 19-20
Chapter 19: The Lord Will Smite Egypt
The burden against
Egypt. The Lord strikes Egypt by giving them over to civil war and submission
to a cruel master. The Nile will be dried, and the Egyptian economy thereby
ruined. Foolish counsel has caused Egypt to stagger like a drunk man in his
vomit. Judah will be a terror to Egypt. The Egyptians will turn to the Lord,
and a savior shall deliver them. There will be a peace between the three
former enemies of Egypt, Assyria and Israel.
Chapter 20: Assyria Shall Overrun Egypt
In the
year of the fall of the Philistine king Ashdod at the hands of the Assyrians
(711 BC). The Lord commands Isaiah to go naked – as he is naked, so shall the
Egyptians and Ethopians be led away naked as captives by Assyria. On this day,
Judah will be ashamed that it once trusted to these nations.
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