shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:
[11] In the day shalt thou make thy
plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in
the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
[12] Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise
like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty
waters!
[13] The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they
shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling
thing before the whirlwind.
[14] And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This
is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
Isa.18
[1] Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
[2] That sendeth ambassadors
by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation
scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden
down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
[3] All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth,
see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.
[4] For
so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat
upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
[5] For afore the harvest, when the bud is
perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks,
and take away and cut down the branches.
[6] They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains,
and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth
shall winter upon them.
[7] In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people
scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and
trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts,
the mount Zion.
Isa.19
[1] The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, 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.
[2]
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.
[3] 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.
[4] And the Egyptians will
I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD
of hosts.
[5] And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
[6] And
they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds
and flags shall wither.
[7] The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing
sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.
[8] The fishers also shall mourn, and
all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall
languish.
[9] Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.
[10]
And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.
[11] Surely
the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellers of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say
ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
[12] Where are they? where are
thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed
upon Egypt.
[13] The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also
seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.
[14] The LORD hath mingled a perverse
spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man
staggereth in his vomit.
[15] Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or
rush, may do.
[16] In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of
the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shaketh over it.
[17] 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.
[18] In that day shall five cities in the
land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The