Isaiah 19 - The Burden Against Egypt A. God strikes Egypt. 1.
(1-4) The Lord strikes Egypt by giving them over to civil war
and submission to a cruel master. The burden against Egypt.
Behold, the Lord rides on a swift cloud, and will come into
Egypt; the idols of Egypt will totter at His presence, and the
heart of Egypt will melt in its midst. "I will set Egyptians
against Egyptians; everyone will fight against his brother, and
everyone against his neighbor, city against city, kingdom
against kingdom. The spirit of Egypt will fail in its midst; I
will destroy their counsel, and they will consult the idols and
the charmers, the mediums and the sorcerers. And the Egyptians I
will give into the hand of a cruel master, and a fierce king
will rule over them," says the Lord, the Lord of hosts. a. The
Lord rides on a swift cloud, and will come into Egypt: Egypt was
one of the great powers of the ancient world, and being situated
immediately to the south of Israel, it was an empire that Israel
constantly had to recko