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Bible Reading for July 13

Isaiah 19
[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
counsellers 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.

Isaiah 20
[1] In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of
Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it; [2] At the same
time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the
sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he
did so, walking naked and barefoot. [3] And the LORD said, Like as my
servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and
wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia; [4] So shall the king of Assyria lead
away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old,
naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of
Egypt. [5] And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their
expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
[6] And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such is
our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of
Assyria: and how shall we escape?

Isaiah 21
[1] The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass
through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land. [2] A grievous
vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously,
and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing
thereof have I made to cease. [3] Therefore are my loins filled with pain:
pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I
was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.
[4] My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure
hath he turned into fear unto me.
[5] Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye
princes, and anoint the shield.
[6] For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him
declare what he seeth.
[7] And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and
a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed: [8] And he
cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the
daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights: [9] And, behold, here cometh
a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said,
Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath
broken unto the ground. [10] O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that
which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared
unto you. [11] The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman,
what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? [12] The watchman said, The
morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye: return,
come.
[13] The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye
travelling companies of Dedanim.
[14] The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was
thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled. [15] For they fled
from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the
grievousness of war. [16] For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a
year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar
shall fail: [17] And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men
of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel
hath spoken it.

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