13. He said to Abram, "Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.

14. I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth,

1. The burden of EGYPT."Behold, the LORD rides on a swift cloud, and comes to EGYPT. The idols of EGYPT will tremble at his presence; and the heart of EGYPT will melt within it.

2. I will stir up the EGYPTians against the EGYPTians, and they will fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

3. The spirit of EGYPT will fail within it. I will destroy its counsel. They will seek the idols, the charmers, those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards.

4. I will give over the EGYPTians into the hand of a cruel lord. A fierce king will rule over them," says the Lord, the LORD of Hosts.

5. The waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted and become dry.

6. The rivers will become foul. The streams of EGYPT will be diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags will wither away.

7. The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and all the sown fields of the Nile, will become dry, be driven away, and be no more.

8. The fishermen will lament, and all those who fish in the Nile will mourn, and those who spread nets on the waters will languish.

9. Moreover those who work in combed flax, and those who weave white cloth, will be confounded.

10. The pillars will be broken in pieces. All those who work for hire will be grieved in soul.

11. The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish. The counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become stupid. How do you say to Pharaoh, "I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?"

12. Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you now; and let them know what the LORD of Hosts has purposed concerning EGYPT.

13. The princes of Zoan have become fools. The princes of Memphis are deceived. They have caused EGYPT to go astray, who are the cornerstone of her tribes.

14. The LORD has mixed a spirit of perverseness in the middle of her; and they have caused EGYPT to go astray in all of its works, like a drunken man staggers in his vomit.

15. Neither shall there be any work for EGYPT, which head or tail, palm branch or rush, may do.

16. In that day the EGYPTians will be like women. They will tremble and fear because of the shaking of the LORD of Hosts's hand, which he shakes over them.

17. The land of Judah will become a terror to EGYPT. Everyone to whom mention is made of it will be afraid, because of the plans of the LORD of Hosts, which he determines against it.

18. In that day, there will be five cities in the land of EGYPT that speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of Hosts. One will be called "The city of destruction."

19. In that day, there will be an altar to the LORD in the middle of the land of EGYPT, and a pillar to the LORD at its border.

20. It will be for a sign and for a witness to the LORD of Hosts in the land of EGYPT; for they will cry to the LORD because of oppressors, and he will send them a savior and a defender, and he will deliver them.

21. The LORD will be known to EGYPT, and the EGYPTians will know the LORD in that day. Yes, they will worship with sacrifice and offering, and will vow a vow to The LORD, and will perform it.

22. The LORD will strike EGYPT, striking and healing. They will return to The LORD, and he will be entreated by them, and will heal them.

23. In that day there will be a highway out of EGYPT to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into EGYPT, and the EGYPTian into Assyria; and the EGYPTians will worship with the Assyrians.

24. In that day, Israel will be the third with EGYPT and with Assyria, a blessing within the earth;

25. because the LORD of Hosts has blessed them, saying, "Blessed be EGYPT my people, Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance."

2. at that time the LORD spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, "Go, and loosen the sackcloth from off your waist, and take your shoes from off your feet." He did so, walking naked and barefoot.

3. The LORD said, "As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder concerning EGYPT and concerning Ethiopia,

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

5. They will be dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of EGYPT their glory.

6. The inhabitants of this coast land will say in that day, 'Behold, this is our expectation, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria. And we, how will we escape?'"

The LORD says: "The labor of EGYPT,and the merchandise of Ethiopia,and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to you,and they shall be yours.They will go after you.They shall come over in chains;and they will bow down to you.They will make supplication to you:'Surely God is in you; and there is no one else.There is no other god.

25. "Behold, the days come," says The LORD, "that I will punish all those who are circumcised only in their flesh:

26. EGYPT, Judah, Edom, the children of Ammon, Moab, and all who have the corners of their hair cut off, who dwell in the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart."

8. Then The LORD's word came to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,

9. "Take great stones in your hand, and hide them in mortar in the brick work, which is at the entry of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah;

10. and tell them, the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: 'Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne on these stones that I have hidden; and he will spread his royal pavilion over them.

11. He will come, and will strike the land of EGYPT; such as are for death will be put to death, and such as are for captivity to captivity, and such as are for the sword to the sword.

12. I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of EGYPT. He will burn them, and carry them away captive. He will array himself with the land of EGYPT, as a shepherd puts on his garment; and he will go out from there in peace.

13. He will also break the pillars of Beth Shemesh, that is in the land of EGYPT; and he will burn the houses of the gods of EGYPT with fire.'"