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The burden of Egypt. “Behold, the LORD rides on a swift cloud, and comes to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence; and the heart of Egypt will melt within it. See also: Exodus 12:12Revelation 1:7Joel 3:19I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians, and they will fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom. See also: Judges 7:221 Samuel 14:20Matthew 10:36The spirit of the Egyptians will fail within them. I will destroy their counsel. They will seek the idols, the charmers, those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards. See also: Isaiah 8:19Daniel 2:21 Chronicles 10:13I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord. A fierce king will rule over them,” says the Lord, GOD of Armies. See also: Isaiah 20:4Jeremiah 46:26Ezekiel 29:19The waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted and become dry. See also: Ezekiel 30:12Jeremiah 51:36Zechariah 14:18The rivers will become foul. The streams of Egypt will be diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags will wither away. See also: Isaiah 37:25Job 8:11Exodus 7:18The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and all the sown fields of the Nile, will become dry, be driven away, and be no more. See also: Ezekiel 19:13Jeremiah 14:4Isaiah 32:20The fishermen will lament, and all those who fish in the Nile will mourn, and those who spread nets on the waters will languish. See also: Habakkuk 1:15Ezekiel 47:10Numbers 11:5Moreover those who work in combed flax, and those who weave white cloth, will be confounded. See also: Ezekiel 27:7Proverbs 7:161 Kings 10:28The pillars will be broken in pieces. All those who work for hire will be grieved in soul. See also: Exodus 8:5Deuteronomy 11:10Exodus 7:19The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish. The counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become stupid. How do you say to Pharaoh, “I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings”? See also: Numbers 13:221 Kings 4:30Isaiah 30:4Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you now; and let them know what the LORD of Armies has purposed concerning Egypt. See also: 1 Corinthians 1:20Isaiah 44:7Judges 9:38The princes of Zoan have become fools. The princes of Memphis are deceived. They have caused Egypt to go astray, those who are the cornerstone of her tribes. See also: Jeremiah 2:16Ezekiel 30:13Zechariah 10:4The LORD has mixed a spirit of perverseness in the middle of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in all of its works, like a drunken man staggers in his vomit. See also: 2 Thessalonians 2:111 Kings 22:20-23Ezekiel 14:7-9Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which head or tail, palm branch or rush, may do. See also: Isaiah 9:14-15Haggai 1:111 Thessalonians 4:11-12In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will tremble and fear because of the shaking of the LORD of Armies’s hand, which he shakes over them. See also: Jeremiah 51:30Nahum 3:13Isaiah 11:15The land of Judah will become a terror to Egypt. Everyone to whom mention is made of it will be afraid, because of the plans of the LORD of Armies, which he determines against it. See also: Isaiah 14:24Daniel 4:35Isaiah 46:10-11In that day, there will be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of Armies. One will be called “The city of destruction.” See also: Zephaniah 3:9Isaiah 19:21Zechariah 2:11In that day, there will be an altar to the LORD in the middle of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the LORD at its border. See also: Genesis 28:18Joshua 22:10Exodus 24:4It will be for a sign and for a witness to the LORD of Armies in the land of Egypt; for they will cry to the LORD because of oppressors, and he will send them a savior and a defender, and he will deliver them. See also: Psalms 50:15Titus 2:13Luke 2:11The LORD will be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know the LORD in that day. Yes, they will worship with sacrifice and offering, and will vow a vow to the LORD, and will perform it. See also: Isaiah 11:9Malachi 1:11Romans 15:27-28The LORD will strike Egypt, striking and healing. They will return to the LORD, and he will be entreated by them, and will heal them. See also: Hebrews 12:11Deuteronomy 32:39Hosea 14:1In that day there will be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria; and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians. See also: Isaiah 11:16Isaiah 40:3-5Ephesians 2:18-22In that day, Israel will be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing within the earth; See also: Genesis 12:2Isaiah 65:8Romans 10:11-13because the LORD of Armies has blessed them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.” See also: Isaiah 29:23Hosea 2:23Romans 9:24-25
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)19 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Isaiah 19:1
Ver. 1. Egypt. Many refer this to the coming of Christ, (C.) at whose presence the idols fell down, and many saints adorned the country. W. --- But the prophet may also literally refer to the wars of the Assyrians against Egypt.
Sabacon having retired, after reigning fifty years, Anysis, and afterwards the priest of Sethon, succeeded to the throne. The latter was attacked by Sennacherib. After his death, twelve kingdoms were formed, but Psammitichus reunited them, and had Nechao for his successor. Herod. ii. 141. 158. ---
Behold. The prophet speaks fourteen years before the attack of Sennacherib.
--- Cloud. Ps. xvii. 11. Some Fathers explain it of the blessed Virgin. C. ---
Moved. Plundered by the Assyrians. M.
↑ 1Isaiah 19:2
Ver. 2. Kingdom. Under the twelve kings. C.
↑ 2Isaiah 19:3
Ver. 3. Egypt. Sept. "of the Egyptians shall be troubled within them." H. ---
Soothsayers.
Feeble but too common resource of superstitious people!
↑ 3Isaiah 19:4
Ver. 4. Masters. Twelve kings. Psammitichus, one of them, shall gain the ascendancy.
↑ 4Isaiah 19:5
Ver. 5. Dry. The lakes and the Nile shall not afford sufficient moisture. C. --- If the Nile rose less than twelve or more than sixteen cubits famine ensued. Pliny xviii. 18.
↑ 5Isaiah 19:7
Ver. 7. Fountain. The Nile rises in Ethiopia. But the canals alone were left dry.
C. --- Sept. "the achi, every green herb along the river, and every," &c. H.
↑ 7Isaiah 19:8
Ver. 8. Fishers. The lake Mœris produced a talent every day for the revenue, and so great was the abundance of fish, that they could hardly be salted. The Nile was also well supplied with fish.
↑ 8Isaiah 19:9
Ver. 9. Linen. Gr. "silk." Ezec. xvi. 10. C.
↑ 9Isaiah 19:10
Ver. 10. All they. Sept. "and all who make strong drink ( secer) shall be in sorrow, and shall afflict their souls." H. --- This version is perhaps the best, as the Egyptians used much ale or wine distilled from barley. C.
↑ 10Isaiah 19:11
Ver. 11. Tanis. Or of the twelve kings. v. 1. They are disconcerted at the approach of Psammitichus, (C.) or at the want of water. H.
↑ 11Isaiah 19:13
Ver. 13. Memphis. The seat of many kings, and a very ancient city. Heb.
"Hoph." --- Stay. Lit.
"angle," denoting the chiefs, or all the land. Judg. xx. 2.
↑ 13Isaiah 19:15
Ver. 15. Back. King and subject are equally confused. C. ix. 14. C.
↑ 15Isaiah 19:17
Ver. 17. Terror. Hebrew also, "a rejoicing," (S. Jer.) on account of Sennacherib's defeat there. C.
xviii. 7.
↑ 17Isaiah 19:18
Ver. 18. Chanaan. Hebrew. The Israelites had a connection with Egypt, which the prophets often blame. C. xxx. 2. Ezechias trusted in their aid, when he refused to pay tribute to the Assyrians.
Many at that time, or afterwards, retired thither, and served God unmolested.
C. xi. 2. Jer. xlii.
More established themselves in the country under Alexander and the Ptolemies. 3 Mac. viii. But this prediction was more fully accomplished by the propagation of the Christian religion. Grace no where shone forth more brightly than in this country, once the seat of superstition. --- Sun.
Heb. "of desolation." But the copies have varied. It is supposed to denote the city On. Gen. xli.
45. C. --- Prideaux (p. 2. b. 4.) accuses the Jews of willfully corrupting this text in the Sept.
Kennicott.
↑ 18Isaiah 19:19
Ver. 19. Altar. If the Jews were forbidden to have any other than the one at Jerusalem, how can the prophet announce this as a blessing? Onias being excluded from the high priesthood, retired into Egypt, and obtained leave to build the temple Onion, in the Nome, though not in the city of Helipolis, above Bubaste, on the Nile, alleging that Isaias had foretold this event, and that one was already built at Leontopolis. Jos. Ant. xii. 15. and xiii. 6. --- But we must allow with the fathers and Jews in the days of S. Jerom, that this prediction regarded the Messias, when altars might be lawfully erected in every nation.
See Misna, tr. Moneuth, xiii. 10. --- Monument. The cross is set up wherever Christ is adored. C. --- The Egyptians shall embrace Christianity, and Anthony,
&c. shall live a holy (W.) and austere life. H.
↑ 19Isaiah 19:20
Ver. 20. Them. The Jews were miraculously rescued from the hands of Philopater, (c. Ap. ii.) or rather Christians are delivered from sin and Satan.
↑ 20Isaiah 19:21
Ver. 21. Egypt. The kings often caused sacrifices to be offered for them; but they were not acceptable, as long as they continued idolaters. The country was converted to Christianity, (C.) and the Anchorets performed their vows and penitential exercises, to the admiration of all. H.
↑ 21Isaiah 19:22
Ver. 22. Scourge. By means of Sennacherib, Cambyses, and Ochus. Afterwards the country was quietly subject to the kings of Persia, Alex. the Ptolemies, and the Romans. C.
↑ 22Isaiah 19:24
Ver. 24. Land. The apostles, who were true Israelites, (H.) procured the blessing of faith for these nations, (C.) to serve God with concord. H.
↑ 24License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses