Zoan

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• EZK 30:10–19, engwebp

  ¹⁰“‘The Lord GOD says: “I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease, by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.

  ¹¹He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, will be brought in to destroy the land. They will draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.

  ¹²I will make the rivers dry, and will sell the land into the hand of evil men. I will make the land desolate, and all that is therein, by the hand of foreigners. I, the LORD, have spoken it.”

  ¹³“‘The Lord GOD says: “I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause the images to cease from Memphis. There will be no more a prince from the land of Egypt. I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.

  ¹⁴I will make Pathros desolate, and will set a fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments on No.

  ¹⁵I will pour my wrath on Sin, the stronghold of Egypt. I will cut off the multitude of No.

  ¹⁶I will set a fire in Egypt Sin will be in great anguish. No will be broken up. Memphis will have adversaries in the daytime.

  ¹⁷The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth will fall by the sword. They will go into captivity.

  ¹⁸At Tehaphnehes also the day will withdraw itself, when I break the yokes of Egypt there. The pride of her power will cease in her. As for her, a cloud will cover her, and her daughters will go into captivity.

  ¹⁹Thus I will execute judgments on Egypt. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”’”

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• ISA 19:1–15, engwebp

  ¹The burden of Egypt. “Behold, the LORD rides on a swift cloud, and comes to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence; and the heart of Egypt will melt within it.

  ²I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians, and they will fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

  ³The spirit of the Egyptians will fail within them. I will destroy their counsel. They will seek the idols, the charmers, those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards.

  ⁴I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord. A fierce king will rule over them,” says the Lord, GOD of Armies.

  ⁵The waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted and become dry.

  ⁶The rivers will become foul. The streams of Egypt will be diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags will wither away.

  ⁷The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and all the sown fields of the Nile, will become dry, be driven away, and be no more.

  ⁸The fishermen will lament, and all those who fish in the Nile will mourn, and those who spread nets on the waters will languish.

  ⁹Moreover those who work in combed flax, and those who weave white cloth, will be confounded.

  ¹⁰The pillars will be broken in pieces. All those who work for hire will be grieved in soul.

  ¹¹The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish. The counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become stupid. How do you say to Pharaoh, “I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings”?

  ¹²Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you now; and let them know what the LORD of Armies has purposed concerning Egypt.

  ¹³The princes of Zoan have become fools. The princes of Memphis are deceived. They have caused Egypt to go astray, those who are the cornerstone of her tribes.

  ¹⁴The LORD has mixed a spirit of perverseness in the middle of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in all of its works, like a drunken man staggers in his vomit.

  ¹⁵Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which head or tail, palm branch or rush, may do.

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• ISA 30:1–7, engwebp

  ¹“Woe to the rebellious children”, says the LORD, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin;

  ²who set out to go down into Egypt without asking for my advice, to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt!

  ³Therefore the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.

  ⁴For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors have come to Hanes.

  ⁵They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can’t profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.”

  ⁶The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people.

  ⁷For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore I have called her Rahab who sits still.

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• NUM 13:22, engwebp

  ²²They went up by the South, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

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• PSA 78:9–20, engwebp

  ⁹The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

  ¹⁰They didn’t keep God’s covenant, and refused to walk in his law.

  ¹¹They forgot his doings, his wondrous deeds that he had shown them.

  ¹²He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

  ¹³He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap.

  ¹⁴In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire.

  ¹⁵He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.

  ¹⁶He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

  ¹⁷Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.

  ¹⁸They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.

  ¹⁹Yes, they spoke against God. They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

  ²⁰Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide meat for his people?”

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• PSA 78:40–55, engwebp

  ⁴⁰How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!

  ⁴¹They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

  ⁴²They didn’t remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;

  ⁴³how he set his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the field of Zoan,

  ⁴⁴he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink.

  ⁴⁵He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.

  ⁴⁶He also gave their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.

  ⁴⁷He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig trees with frost.

  ⁴⁸He also gave over their livestock to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

  ⁴⁹He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, and a band of angels of evil.

  ⁵⁰He made a path for his anger. He didn’t spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,

  ⁵¹and struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.

  ⁵²But he led out his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

  ⁵³He led them safely, so that they weren’t afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

  ⁵⁴He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had taken.

  ⁵⁵He also drove out the nations before them, allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

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