Isaiah 19:2-3

²And I will set the Egyptians to fight against the Egyptians: and they shall fight brother against brother, and friend against friend, city against city, kingdom against kingdom.

³And the spirit of Egypt shall be broken in the bowels thereof, and I will cast down their counsel: and they shall consult their idols, and their diviners, and their wizards, and soothsayers.

Isaiah 19 delivers a startling oracle against Egypt, but it does not end in judgment. The chapter moves from a vision of Egypt's collapse — civil war, a cruel king, dried-up Nile, and foolish counselors — to an astonishing future where Egypt, Assyria, and Israel worship together. Th

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