Isaiah 19:25
Which the Lord of hosts hath blessed, saying: Blessed be my people of Egypt, and the work of my hands to the Assyrian: but Israel is my inheritance.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Numbers 6:27And they shall invoke my name upon the children of Israel, and I will bless them.
Deuteronomy 32:9But the Lord's portion is his people: Jacob the lot of his inheritance.
Psalms 100:3Know ye that the Lord he is God: he made us, and not we ourselves. We are his people and the sheep of his pasture.
Psalms 138:8O daughter of Babylon, miserable: blessed shall he be who shall repay thee thy payment which thou hast paid us.
Isaiah 45:11Thus saith the Lord the Holy One of Israel, his maker: Ask me of things to come, concerning my children, and concerning the work of my hands give ye charge to me.
Isaiah 61:9And they shall know their seed among the Gentiles, and their offspring in the midst of peoples: all that shall see them, shall know them, that these are the seed which the Lord hath blessed.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 19:19-25
Promises to Egypt. ( b. c. 710.) 18 In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the Lord of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction. 19 In that day shall there be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the Lord . 20 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the Lord because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour,… Read the whole commentary →