The burden concerning Egypt:
See, Jehovah is riding upon a swift cloud,
And He is coming to Egypt.
And the idols of Egypt will quiver at His presence,
And the heart of the Egyptians will melt within them.

Thus I will spur on Egyptian against Egyptian;
And each will fight against his brother, and each against his neighbor,
City against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

The spirit of the Egyptians will fail within them,
And their counsel I will swallow up;
Then they will seek after idols and mediums,
And after spirits of the dead and familiar spirits.

And I will shut the Egyptians up under the hand of hard masters,
And a mighty king will rule over them,
Declares the Lord Jehovah of hosts.

And the waters from the sea will be dried up,
And the river will be desolate and dry.

The river canals will stink;
The streams of Egypt's Nile will diminish and be desolate.
The reeds and rushes will rot;

The plants at the Nile, at the mouth of the Nile,
And every place sown by the Nile
Will dry up, be driven away, and be no more.

The fishermen will mourn;
And all who cast the hook into the Nile will lament;
And those who spread nets upon the waters will languish.

Moreover, those who work with combed flax will be confounded,
As well as those who weave linen.

And the pillars of the land will be crushed,
And every wage worker will be sullen in soul.

Mere fools are the princes of Zoan;
The counsel of the wisest of Pharaoh's counselors has become stupidity.
How can you say to Pharaoh,
I am a son of the wise men, a son of ancient kings?

Where are they? Where are your wise men?
Let them tell you and let them know
What Jehovah of hosts has purposed against Egypt.

The princes of Zoan have become fools; the princes of Memphis are beguiled;
They have misled Egypt, who are the cornerstone of her tribes.

Jehovah has mixed within her a spirit of distortings,
And they have misled Egypt in all that it does,
As a drunken man staggers in his vomit.

And there will be no work for Egypt,
Which the head or the tail, the palm branch or the marsh reed, may do.

In that day the Egyptians will be like women, and they will tremble and be in dread before the waving of the hand of Jehovah of hosts, which He will be waving over them.

And the land of Judah will become a source of crazed terror to Egypt — everyone to whom it is mentioned will be in dread of it because of the purpose of Jehovah of hosts, which He purposes against them.

In that day five cities in the land of Egypt will be speaking the language of Canaan and swearing to Jehovah of hosts; one will be called the City of Destruction.

In that day there will be an altar to Jehovah in the midst of the land of Egypt and a pillar to Jehovah near its border;

And it will become a sign and a testimony to Jehovah of hosts in the land of Egypt; for they will cry unto Jehovah because of their oppressors, and He will send them a  ¹Savior and Mighty One; and He will deliver them.

And Jehovah will make Himself known to the Egyptians, and the Egyptians will know Jehovah in that day; they will  ¹worship Him with sacrifice and offering and will vow a vow to Jehovah and accomplish it.

And Jehovah will strike Egypt, striking yet healing; and they will turn to Jehovah, and He will be entreated of by them and will heal them.

In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrians will come to Egypt, and the Egyptians to Assyria; and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians.

In that day Israel will be the third party with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the land,

With which Jehovah of hosts will bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt My people and Assyria the work of My hands and Israel My inheritance.

In the year that the  ¹Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it,

At that time Jehovah spoke through Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loosen the sackcloth from your loins and take your sandals off your feet. And he did so, going about stripped and barefooted.

And Jehovah said, Just as My servant Isaiah has gone about stripped and barefoot for three years as a sign and a wonder against Egypt and Cush,

So shall the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young men and old men, stripped and barefoot, with their buttocks uncovered, to Egypt's shame.

And they will be dismayed and ashamed of Cush, their  ¹expectation, and of Egypt, their  ¹boast.

And the inhabitant of this coastland will say in that day, Such is now our expectation, to whom we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria! And how shall we escape?

The burden concerning the wilderness of the sea:
Like storm winds
In the  ¹Negev passing through,
It comes from the wilderness
From an awesome land.

A harsh vision
Has been announced to me;
The unfaithful one deals unfaithfully,
And the destroyer destroys.
Go up, Elam;
Lay siege, Media;
I have put an end
To all her groaning.

Therefore my loins
Are full of anguish;
Pangs have taken hold of me
Like the pangs of a woman in labor.
I am bent over at the hearing of it;
I am terrified at the seeing of it.

My heart reels;
Shuddering overwhelms me.
The twilight that I love
Has become a source of trembling to me.

Setting the table!
Spreading out the rug!
Eating! Drinking!
Rise, princes;
Oil the shields.

For thus says
The Lord to me,
Go, set a watchman;
Let him report what he sees.

And he saw riders,
A team of horsemen;
Riders of donkeys,
Riders of camels;
And he attends with attention,
With much attention.

And he calls out like a lion:
On the watchtower, Lord,
I stand continually by day;
At my guardpost
I am stationed
Every night.

And now there come
Riding men,
A team of horsemen.
And one answers and says,
Fallen, fallen is Babylon!
And all the idols of her gods
Has He shattered to the ground.

My threshed ones,
And the son of the threshing floor!
What I have heard
From Jehovah of hosts,
The God of Israel,
I have declared to you.

The burden concerning  ¹Dumah:
Someone is calling to me from Seir:
Guard, what remains of the night?
Guard, what remains of the night?

The guard says,
Morning is coming,
But so also is night;
If you will ask, ask;
Return, come.

The burden against Arabia:
In the thicket of Arabia you must spend the night,
You nomad clans of the Dedanim.

They bring water
To meet the thirsty;
The inhabitants of the land of Tema
Meet with bread those who flee;

For they flee from swords —
From the drawn sword,
From the bent bow,
And from the harshness of battle.

For thus has the Lord said to me, Within a year, like a wage worker's year, all the glory of Kedar will end,

And the remainder of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the sons of Kedar, will be few; for Jehovah the God of Israel has spoken.