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Isaiah 19:2-4
New English Translation
Isaiah 19:2-4
New English Translation
2 “I will provoke civil strife in Egypt:[a]
brothers will fight with one another,
as will neighbors,
cities, and kingdoms.[b]
3 The Egyptians will panic,[c]
and I will confuse their strategy.[d]
They will seek guidance from the idols and from the spirits of the dead,
from the pits used to conjure up underworld spirits, and from the magicians.[e]
4 I will hand Egypt over to a harsh master;
a powerful king will rule over them,”
says the Sovereign Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 19:2 tn Heb I will provoke Egypt against Egypt” (NAB similar).
- Isaiah 19:2 tn Heb “and they will fight, a man against his brother, and a man against his neighbor, city against city, kingdom against kingdom.” Civil strife will extend all the way from the domestic level to the provincial arena.
- Isaiah 19:3 tn Heb “and the spirit of Egypt will be laid waste in its midst.”
- Isaiah 19:3 tn The verb בָּלַע (balaʿ, “confuse”) is a homonym of the more common בָּלַע (balaʿ, “swallow”); see HALOT 135 s.v. I בלע.
- Isaiah 19:3 tn Heb “they will inquire of the idols and of the spirits of the dead and of the ritual pits and of the magicians.” Hebrew אוֹב (ʾov, “ritual pit”) refers to a pit used by a magician to conjure up underworld spirits. See the note on “incantations” in 8:19.
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