Isaiah 19:1
The word about Egypt. See, the Lord is seated on a quick-moving cloud, and is coming to Egypt: and the false gods of Egypt will be troubled at his coming, and the heart of Egypt will be turned to water.
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Exodus 12:12For on that night I will go through the land of Egypt, sending death on every first male child, of man and of beast, and judging all the gods of Egypt: I am the Lord.
Numbers 33:4While the Egyptians were placing in the earth the bodies of their sons on whom the Lord had sent destruction: and their gods had been judged by him.
Joshua 2:9And said to them, It is clear to me that the Lord has given you the land, and that the fear of you has come on us;
Joshua 2:24And they said to Joshua, Truly, the Lord has given all the land into our hands; and all the people of the land have become like water because of us.
Psalms 18:10\18:9\The heavens were bent, so that he might come down; and it was dark under his feet.
Psalms 68:33\68:32\Make songs to God, you kingdoms of the earth; O make songs of praise to the Lord; (Selah.)
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 19:1
As Assyria was a breaking rod to Judah, with which it was smitten, so Egypt was a broken reed, with which it was cheated; and therefore God had a quarrel with them both. We have before read the doom of the Assyrians; now here we have the burden of Egypt, a prophecy concerning that nation, I. That it should be greatly weakened and brought low, and should be as contemptible among the nations as now it was considerable, rendered so by a complication of judgments which God would bring upon them, ver. 1-17 . II. That… Read the whole commentary →