Liber Isaiae

Isaiae, chapter 19, Vulgate and King James Version

Chapter 19 Vulgate

   1 Oraculum Aegypti. Ecce Dominus vehitur super nubem levem et ingreditur Aegyptum; et commovebuntur simulacra Aegypti a facie eius, et cor Aegypti tabescet in medio eius.
   2 "Et concurrere faciam Aegyptios adversus Aegyptios; et pugnabit vir contra fratrem suum, et vir contra amicum suum, civitas adversus civitatem, regnum adversus regnum.
   3 Et dirumpetur spiritus Aegypti in visceribus eius, et consilium eius confundam; et interrogabunt simulacra et divinos et pythones et hariolos.
   4 Et tradam Aegyptios in manu domini crudelis, et rex fortis dominabitur eorum", ait Dominus, Deus exercituum.
   5 Et arescet aqua de mari, et fluvius desolabitur atque siccabitur,
   6 et putrida fient flumina; attenuabuntur et siccabuntur rivi Aegypti, calamus et iuncus marcescent;
   7 nudabuntur ripae Nili, et omnis planta Nili siccabitur; arescet et non erit.
   8 Et maerebunt piscatores, et lugebunt omnes mittentes in flumen hamum; et expandentes rete super faciem aquarum languebunt.
   9 Confundentur, qui operantur linum, pectentes et texentes byssum.
   10 Et opifices eius deprimentur, omnes mercennarii omnino deficient.
   11 Quam stulti principes Taneos! Sapientes consiliarii pharaonis dederunt consilium insipiens; quomodo dicetis pharaoni: "Filius sapientium ego, filius regum antiquorum "?
   12 Ubi nunc sunt sapientes tui? Annuntient tibi et indicent quid cogitaverit Dominus exercituum super Aegyptum.
   13 Stulti facti sunt principes Taneos, decepti sunt principes Mempheos, deceperunt Aegyptum anguli tribuum eius.
   14 Dominus miscuit in medio eius spiritum vertiginis, et errare fecerunt Aegyptum in omni opere suo, sicut errat ebrius in vomitu suo;
   15 et non erit Aegypto opus, quod faciat, caput vel cauda, palma vel arundo.
   16 In die illa erunt Aegyptii quasi mulieres et stupebunt et timebunt a facie commotionis manus Domini exercituum, quam ipse movebit super eam.
   17 Et erit terra Iudae Aegypto in pavorem: omnis, qui illius fuerit recordatus, pavebit a facie consilii Domini exercituum, quod ipse cogitavit super eam.
   18 In die illa erunt quinque civitates in terra Aegypti loquentes lingua Chanaan et iurantes per Dominum exercituum. Civitas Solis vocabitur una.
   19 In die illa erit altare Domino in medio terrae Aegypti, et titulus iuxta terminum eius Domino.
   20 Et erit in signum et in testimonium Domino exercituum in terra Aegypti. Clamabunt enim ad Dominum a facie tribulantium, et mittet eis salvatorem et propugnatorem, qui liberet eos.
   21 Et cognoscetur Dominus ab Aegypto, et cognoscent Aegyptii Dominum in die illa; et colent eum in hostiis et in muneribus et vota vovebunt Domino et solvent.
   22 Et percutiet Dominus Aegyptum plaga et sanabit; et revertentur ad Dominum, et placabitur eis et sanabit eos.
   23 In die illa erit via de Aegypto in Assyriam; et intrabit Assyrius Aegyptum, et Aegyptius in Assyriam, et servient Aegyptii cum Assyriis.
   24 In die illa erit Israel tertius cum Aegypto et Assyria; benedictio in medio terrae,
   25 cui benedicet Dominus exercituum dicens: "Benedictus populus meus Aegyptius, et opus manuum mearum Assyrius, et hereditas mea Israel".

Source: Bibliorum Sacrorum Editio, Sacrosanti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani II, Ratione Habita, Iussu Pauli PP. VI Recognita, Auctoritate Ioannis Pauli PP. II Promulgata, Editio Typica Altera

King James Version

   1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
   2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
   3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
   4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
   5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
   6 And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.
   7 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.
   8 The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.
   9 Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.
   10 And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.
   11 ¶ Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
   12 Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.
   13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.
   14 The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
   15 Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.
   16 In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shaketh over it.
   17 And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath determined against it.
   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, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.
   21 And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform it.
   22 And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them.
   23 ¶ In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.
   24 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land:
   25 Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.