14. The lord has sent a spirit of foolishness on them,so all their suggestions are wrong.They cause Egypt to staggerlike a drunk in his vomit.
15. There is nothing Egypt can do.All are helpless—the head and the tail,the noble palm branch and the lowly reed.
16. In that day the Egyptians will be as weak as women. They will cower in fear beneath the upraised fist of the lord of Heaven’s Armies.
17. Just to speak the name of Israel will terrorize them, for the lord of Heaven’s Armies has laid out his plans against them.
18. In that day five of Egypt’s cities will follow the lord of Heaven’s Armies. They will even begin to speak Hebrew, the language of Canaan. One of these cities will be Heliopolis, the City of the Sun.
19. In that day there will be an altar to the lord in the heart of Egypt, and there will be a monument to the lord at its border.