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22 After all God’s disciplining action, the Eternal will take them back with gentle care. After His punishment, there will be healing; the Egyptians will turn to Him, and He will hear and heal them.

Though Egypt and Assyria are mortal enemies, God is about to do something new for them both. The God of peace always seeks to make peace among the nations.

23 When that day arrives, there will be a road connecting Egypt to Assyria and people of both nations will travel it to worship together, side-by-side. 24 Our land of Israel, through which that road travels, will then be allied with these other great nations, and Israel will be a whole-earth blessing, the hub of proper worship.

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22 The Lord will strike(A) Egypt with a plague;(B) he will strike them and heal them. They will turn(C) to the Lord, and he will respond to their pleas and heal(D) them.

23 In that day(E) there will be a highway(F) from Egypt to Assyria.(G) The Assyrians will go to Egypt and the Egyptians to Assyria. The Egyptians and Assyrians will worship(H) together. 24 In that day(I) Israel will be the third, along with Egypt and Assyria,(J) a blessing[a](K) on the earth.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 19:24 Or Assyria, whose names will be used in blessings (see Gen. 48:20); or Assyria, who will be seen by others as blessed