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Yeshayahu 19

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19:1

Module 2: The Burdens of the Nations and the Day of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄

The burden of Mitzrayim. Behold, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Mitzrayim: and the idols of Mitzrayim shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Mitzrayim shall melt in the midst of it.
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And I will set the Mitzrites against the Mitzrites: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
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And the spirit (ruach) of Mitzrayim 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.
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And the Mitzrites will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith Adonai, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 of hosts.
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The Drying of the Nile and the Failure of Industry

And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.
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And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.
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The Foolishness of the Counselors of Tzoan

Surely the princes of Tzoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
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Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 of hosts hath purposed upon Mitzrayim.
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The princes of Tzoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Mitzrayim, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.
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𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 hath mingled a perverse spirit (ruach) in the midst thereof: and they have caused Mitzrayim to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
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Neither shall there be any work for Mitzrayim, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.
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The Fear of the Hand of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄

In that day shall Mitzrayim be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 of hosts, which he shaketh over it.
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And the land of Yahudah shall be a terror unto Mitzrayim, every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 of hosts, which he hath determined against it.
19:18

The Five Cities and the Altar in the Land of Mitzrayim

In that day shall five cities in the land of Mitzrayim speak the language of Kena'an, and swear to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction (Ir Ha-Heres).
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In that day shall there be an altar to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 in the midst of the land of Mitzrayim, and a pillar at the border thereof to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.
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And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 of hosts in the land of Mitzrayim: for they shall cry unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.
19:21
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 shall be known to Mitzrayim, and the Mitzrites shall know 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, and perform it.
19:22
And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 shall smite Mitzrayim: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them.
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The Highway Protocol and the Triple Blessing

In that day shall there be a highway out of Mitzrayim to Ashshuwr, and the Ashshuwrian shall come into Mitzrayim, and the Mitzrite into Ashshuwr, and the Mitzriym shall serve with the Ashshuwriym.
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In that day shall Yashar'el be the third with Mitzrayim and with Ashshuwr, even a blessing in the midst of the land:
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Whom 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Mitzrayim my people, and Ashshuwr the work of my hands, and Yashar'el mine inheritance.