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So it will be when Moab appears,When he wearies himself upon his high placeAnd comes to his sanctuary to pray,That he will not prevail.

"So I will incite Egyptians against Egyptians;And they will each fight against his brother and each against his neighbor,City against city and kingdom against kingdom.

Then the spirit of the Egyptians will be emptied to destruction within them;And I will confuse their counsel,So that they will seek idols and ghosts of the deadAnd to mediums and spiritists.

And Yahweh will smite Egypt, smiting but healing; so they will return to Yahweh, and He will be moved by their entreaty and will heal them.

at that time Yahweh spoke by the hand of Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, "Go and loosen the sackcloth from your hips and take your shoes off your feet." And he did so, going naked and barefoot.

so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

So the inhabitants of this coastland will say in that day, ‘Behold, such is our hope, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria; and we, how shall we escape?'"

For this reason my loins are full of anguish;Pains have seized me like the pains of a woman in labor.I am so bewildered I cannot hear, so terrified I cannot see.

Indeed, he shall see riders, horsemen in pairs,Riders of donkeys, riders of camels,So let him pay close attention, very close attention."

So they will hang on him all the glory of his father's house, offspring and issue, all the least of vessels, from bowls to all the jars.

So He said, "You shall exult no more, O crushed virgin daughter of Sidon.Arise, pass over to Cyprus; even there you will find no rest."

The city of chaos is broken down;Every house is shut up so that none may enter.

So it will be in that day,That Yahweh will punish the host of heights on high,And the kings of the earth on earth.

So the word of Yahweh to them will be,"Order on order, order on order,Line on line, line on line,A little here, a little there,"That they may go and stumble backward, be broken, snared, and taken captive.

So now do not carry on as scoffers,Lest your fetters be made stronger;For I have heard from Lord Yahweh of hostsOf complete destruction, one that is decreed, on all the earth.

Whose breaking is like the breaking of a potter's jar,So ruthlessly shatteredThat a potsherd will not be found among its piecesTo take fire from a hearthOr to scoop water from a cistern."

Now the Egyptians are men and not God,And their horses are flesh and not spirit;So Yahweh will stretch out His hand,And he who helps will stumble,And he who is helped will fall,And all of them will come to an end together.

For thus says Yahweh to me,"As the lion or the young lion growls over its prey,Against which a multitude of shepherds is called out,And it will not be dismayed at their voice nor afflicted at their noise,So will Yahweh of hosts come down to wage war on Mount Zion and on its hill."

Like flying birds so Yahweh of hosts will defend Jerusalem.He will defend and deliver it;He will pass over and provide a way of escape.

He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly;He who rejects greedy gain of oppression,And shakes his hands so that they hold no bribe;He who stops his ears from hearing about bloodshedAnd shuts his eyes from looking upon evil;