Isaiah 19:1
The burden of Egypt. Behold, the Lord will ascend upon a lofty cloud, and he will enter into Egypt, and the false images of Egypt will be moved before his face, and the heart of Egypt will waste away in its midst.
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Exodus 12:12And I will cross through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from man, even to cattle. And I will bring judgments against all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord.
Numbers 33:4And these were burying their firstborn, whom the Lord had struck down (for so, too, did he carry out retribution against their gods).
Joshua 2:9“I know that the Lord has given this land to you. For the terror of you has fallen upon us, and all the inhabitants of the land have languished.
Joshua 2:24And they said, “The Lord has delivered this entire land into our hands, and all its inhabitants have been struck down by fear.”
Psalms 18:10The fear of the Lord is holy, enduring for all generations. The judgments of the Lord are true, justified in themselves:
Psalms 68:33Let the poor see and rejoice. Seek God, and your soul will live.
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 →