Top Verses from Isaiah 19  

"I will stir up Egyptian against Egyptian – brother will fight against brother, neighbor against neighbor, city against city, kingdom against kingdom." (NIV)

And I will stir up Egyptians against Egyptians, and they will fight, every one against his brother and every one against his neighbor, city against city, kingdom against kingdom. (AMP)

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. (KJV)

The LORD has poured into them a spirit of dizziness; they make Egypt stagger in all that she does, as drunkards stagger around in their vomit. (NIV)

The Lord has mingled a spirit of perverseness, error, and confusion within her; [her leaders] have caused Egypt to stagger in all her doings, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit. (AMP)

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. (KJV)

The officials of Zoan are nothing but fools; the wise counselors of Pharaoh give senseless advice. How can you say to Pharaoh, "I am one of the wise men, a disciple of the ancient kings"? (NIV)

The princes of Zoan [ancient capital of the Pharaohs] are utterly foolish; the counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become witless (stupid). How can you say to Pharaoh, I am a son of the wise, a son of ancient kings? (AMP)

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? (KJV)

The officials of Zoan have become fools, the leaders of Memphis are deceived; the cornerstones of her peoples have led Egypt astray. (NIV)

The princes of Zoan have become fools, and the princes of Memphis are confused and deceived; those who are the cornerstones of her tribes have led Egypt astray. (AMP)

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. (KJV)

Those who work with combed flax will despair, the weavers of fine linen will lose hope. (NIV)

Moreover, they who work with combed flax and they who weave white [cotton] cloth will be confounded and in despair. (AMP)

Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded. (KJV)

The workers in cloth will be dejected, and all the wage earners will be sick at heart. (NIV)

[Those who are] the pillars and foundations of Egypt will be crushed, and all those who work for hire or who build dams will be grieved. (AMP)

And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish. (KJV)

The waters of the river will dry up, and the riverbed will be parched and dry. (NIV)

And the waters shall fail from the Nile, and the river shall be wasted and become dry. (AMP)

And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up. (KJV)

In that day the Egyptians will become weaklings. They will shudder with fear at the uplifted hand that the LORD Almighty raises against them. (NIV)

In that day will the Egyptians be like women [timid and helpless]; and they will tremble and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the Lord of hosts which He shakes over them. (AMP)

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. (KJV)

The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will dwindle and dry up. The reeds and rushes will wither (NIV)

And the rivers shall become foul, the streams and canals of Egypt shall be diminished and dried up, the reeds and the rushes shall wither and rot away. (AMP)

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. (KJV)

Those who fish will groan and lament, all who cast hooks into the Nile; those who throw nets on the water will pine away. (NIV)

The fishermen will lament, and all who cast a hook into the Nile will mourn; and they who spread nets upon the waters will languish. (AMP)

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. (KJV)