¹The burden of Egypt. Look, Yahweh is riding on a swift cloud and will come to Egypt; the idols of Egypt will shake before his face, and the heart of Egypt will melt within it.

²And I will entangle Egypt against Egypt, and they will fight, a man against his brother and a man against his neighbor, city against city, kingdom against kingdom.

³The breath of Egypt will be emptied out within it, and I will swallow down its counsel; and they will inquire of the idols and the mutterers and the mediums and the spiritists.

⁴And I will shut Egypt up in the hand of a harsh lord, and a fierce king will rule over them, the utterance of the lord Yahweh of hosts.

⁵The waters will dry up from the sea, and the river will be parched and dry.

⁶And they will forsake the rivers; the channels of Egypt will sink low and dry up; the reed and the rush will wither.

⁷The bare plots beside the River, at the mouth of the River, and all the sown land of the River will dry up, be driven away, and be no more.

⁸The fishermen will lament, and all who cast a hook into the River will mourn, and those who spread a net on the face of the waters will languish.

⁹Those who work combed flax will be ashamed, as will those who weave white cloth.

¹⁰Her foundations will be crushed; all who work for wages will be grieved in their being.

¹¹Surely the officials of Zoan are fools, the wise counselors of Pharaoh; their counsel has become brutish. How can you say to Pharaoh, 'I am a son of the wise, a son of kings of old'?

¹²Where are they, then, your wise ones? Let them tell you, please, and let them know what Yahweh of hosts has resolved concerning Egypt.

¹³The officials of Zoan have become fools; the officials of Memphis have been deceived; they have led Egypt astray, the corner of her tribes.

¹⁴Yahweh has mixed within her a breath of distortions, and they have led astray Egypt in all its work, like a drunkard staggering in his vomit.

¹⁵And there will be no work for Egypt that head and tail, palm branch and rush might do.

¹⁶In that day Egypt will be like women, and will shudder and be in dread before the brandishing of the hand of Yahweh of hosts, which he waves over it.

¹⁷And the ground of Judah will become a terror to Egypt; everyone who mentions it to him will be in dread because of the plan of Yahweh of hosts, which he is resolving against it.

¹⁸In that day, there will be five cities in the land of Egypt speaking the lip of Canaan and swearing to Yahweh of hosts; one will be called the City of Destruction.

¹⁹In that day there will be an altar to Yahweh in the middle of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to Yahweh beside its border.

²⁰It will be a sign and a witness to Yahweh of hosts in the land of Egypt; for they will cry out to Yahweh because of oppressors, and he will send them a deliverer and one who contends, and he will rescue them.

²¹And Yahweh will make himself known to Egypt, and Egypt will know Yahweh in that day; they will serve with sacrifice and grain offering, and vow a vow to Yahweh and pay it.

²²And Yahweh will strike Egypt, striking and healing; and they will turn back to Yahweh, and he will listen to their prayer and heal them.

²³In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria; Assyria will come into Egypt, and Egypt into Assyria, and Egypt will serve Assyria.

²⁴In that day Israel will be a third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the land,

²⁵whom Yahweh of hosts has blessed, saying, 'Blessed be my people Egypt, and the work of my hands Assyria, and my inheritance Israel.'