9. Workers with flax will be dismayed;carders and weavers will grow pale.
10. Makers of cloth will be crushed;all who earn money will become distressed.
11. The officials of Tanis are fools;the wisest of Pharaoh’s counselors give stupid advice.How can you say to Pharaoh,"I’m a wise person,one of the ancient kings"?
12. Where now are your wise ones?Let them tell you,let them inform you what the Lord of heavenly forces has planned concerning Egypt.
13. The officials of Tanis have become fools;the princes of Memphis are deluded;the tribal chiefs have led Egypt astray.
14. The Lord has poured into them a spirit of confusion.They will make Egypt stumble in everything it does,just as a drunk stumbles in his vomit.
15. Neither head nor tail, palm branch nor reedwill be able to do anything for Egypt.
16. On that day, the Egyptians will be like women and will tremble with terror before the hand that the Lord of heavenly forces will raise against them.
17. Judah’s land will become what the Egyptians dread; whenever anyone mentions it, they will be terrified because of the plans that the Lord of heavenly forces is making against them.
18. On that day, there will be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan and swear loyalty to the Lord of heavenly forces. One of them will be called "the city of the sun."
19. On that day, there will be an altar to the Lord within the land of Egypt, and a standing stone for the Lord at its border.
20. It will be a sign and a witness to the Lord of heavenly forces in the land of Egypt. When they cry out to the Lord because of oppressors, God will send them a savior and defender to rescue them.
21. The Lord will make himself known to the Egyptians; the Egyptians will know the Lord on that day. They will worship with sacrifices and offerings, making solemn promises to the Lord and fulfilling them.
22. The Lord will strike Egypt; striking and then healing. They will return to the Lord, who will hear their pleas and heal them.
23. On that day, there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria. The Assyrians will come to Egypt, and the Egyptians to Assyria; and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians.