Isaiah 19:18

KJV1611 – Modern English

In that day five cities in the land of Egypt shall speak the language of Canaan and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    In that day, five cities in the land of Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the LORD of Hosts. One of them will be called the City of the Sun.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    In that day{H3117} there shall be five{H2568} cities{H5892} in the land{H776} of Egypt{H4714} that speak{H1696} the language{H8193} of Canaan,{H3667} and swear{H7650} to Jehovah{H3068} of hosts;{H6635} one{H259} shall be called{H559} The city{H5892} of destruction.{H2041}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    In that day{H3117} shall five{H2568} cities{H5892} in the land{H776} of Egypt{H4714} speak{H1696}{(H8764)} the language{H8193} of Canaan{H3667}, and swear{H7650}{(H8737)} to the LORD{H3068} of hosts{H6635}; one{H259} shall be called{H559}{(H8735)}, The city{H5892} of destruction{H2041}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Then shal the fyue cities of Egipte speake with the Canaanites tunge, ande sweare by the LORDE of hoostes, & Heliopolis shalbe one of them.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    In that day shall fiue cities in the lande of Egypt speake the language of Canaan, and shall sweare by the Lord of hostes. one shall be called the citie of destruction.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    In that day shall fiue cities in the lande of Egypt speake the language of Chanaan, and sweare by the Lorde of hoastes: the citie of desolation shalbe called one of them.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    ¶ 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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    In that day there shall be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan, and swear to Yahweh of hosts; one shall be called The city of destruction.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    In that day there are five cities in the land of Egypt, Speaking the lip of Canaan, And swearing to Jehovah of Hosts, `The city of destruction,' is said of one.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    In that day there shall be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan, and swear to Jehovah of hosts; one shall be called The city of destruction.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    In that day there shall be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan, and swear to Jehovah of hosts; one shall be called The city of destruction.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    In that day there will be five towns in the land of Egypt using the language of Canaan, and making oaths to the Lord of armies; and one of them will be named, The Town of the Sun.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    In that day, there will be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan, and swear to Yahweh of Armies. One will be called "The city of destruction."

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    At that time five cities in the land of Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the LORD of Heaven’s Armies. One will be called the City of the Sun.

Referenced Verses

  • Zeph 3:9 : 9 For then I will turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.
  • Zech 2:11 : 11 And many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and they shall be My people: and I will dwell in your midst, and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.
  • Isa 19:21 : 21 The LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day and shall offer sacrifice and gifts; yes, they shall vow a vow to the LORD and perform it.
  • Isa 27:13 : 13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and they shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.
  • Isa 45:23-24 : 23 I have sworn by Myself, the word has gone out of My mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, that to Me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. 24 Surely, they shall say, In the LORD I have righteousness and strength. To Him shall men come; and all who are incensed against Him shall be ashamed.
  • Jer 12:16 : 16 And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of My people, to swear by My name, 'As the LORD lives,' as they taught My people to swear by Baal, then they shall be established in the midst of My people.
  • Gen 11:1 : 1 And the whole earth had one language and one speech.
  • Deut 10:20 : 20 You shall fear the LORD your God; him you shall serve, and to him you shall hold fast, and swear by his name.
  • Isa 2:11 : 11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
  • Isa 11:11 : 11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, who are left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
  • Isa 19:19 : 19 In that day there shall be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at its border to the LORD.
  • Neh 10:29 : 29 They joined with their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and His judgments and His statutes;
  • Ps 68:31 : 31 Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 19:19-21
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    81%

    19 In that day there shall be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at its border to the LORD.

    20 It shall be for a sign and for a witness to 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 savior, a great one, and He shall deliver them.

    21 The LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day and shall offer sacrifice and gifts; yes, they shall vow a vow to the LORD and perform it.

  • Isa 19:15-17
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    77%

    15 Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.

    16 In that day Egypt shall be like women, and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which He shakes over it.

    17 The land of Judah shall be a terror to Egypt; everyone who mentions it shall be afraid in themselves because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which He has determined against it.

  • Jer 46:19-20
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    19 O daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish yourself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.

    20 Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction comes; it comes out of the north.

  • Isa 19:23-24
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    23 In that day there shall be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrians shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptians into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.

    24 In that day Israel shall be the third with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the land,

  • Ezek 30:6-8
    3 verses
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    6 Thus says the LORD; Those who uphold Egypt will fall; and the pride of her power will come down: from the tower of Syene they will fall by the sword, says the Lord GOD.

    7 They will be desolate among the countries that are desolate, and her cities will be among the cities that are wasted.

    8 And they will know that I am the LORD, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and all her helpers are destroyed.

  • 8 And I will make this city desolate, and an object of scorn; everyone who passes by it shall be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.

  • Ezek 29:9-10
    2 verses
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    9 And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know that I am the LORD: because he has said, The river is mine, and I have made it.

    10 Behold, therefore I am against you, and against your rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene even to the border of Ethiopia.

  • 8 Egypt rises up like a flood, and his waters move like the rivers; and he says, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and its inhabitants.

  • Isa 19:1-5
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    1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rides upon a swift cloud and shall come into Egypt. The idols of Egypt shall be moved at His presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in its midst.

    2 I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians, and they shall fight every one against his brother and every one against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

    3 The spirit of Egypt shall fail in its midst; I will destroy its counsel, and they shall seek the idols, the charmers, those with familiar spirits, and the wizards.

    4 I will give the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord, and a fierce king shall rule over them, says the Lord, the LORD of hosts.

    5 The waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.

  • Jer 42:17-19
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    72%

    17 So shall it be with all the men who set their faces to go into Egypt to live there; they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them.

    18 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As my anger and my fury have been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when you shall enter into Egypt: and you shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and you shall see this place no more.

    19 The LORD has said concerning you, O you remnant of Judah; Do not go into Egypt: know certainly that I have admonished you this day.

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    16 I will set fire in Egypt: Sin will suffer great pain, No will be torn apart, and Noph will have distresses daily.

    17 The young men of Aven and Pibeseth will fall by the sword: and these cities will go into captivity.

    18 At Tehaphnehes the day will be darkened, when I break there the yokes of Egypt: the pomp of her strength will cease in her: as for her, a cloud will cover her, and her daughters will go into captivity.

    19 Thus I will execute judgments in Egypt: and they will know that I am the LORD.

  • 12 And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.

  • 4 And the sword will come upon Egypt, and great pain will be in Ethiopia, when the slain fall in Egypt, and they take away her multitude, and her foundations are broken down.

  • 13 Thus says the Lord GOD; I will destroy the idols, and cause their images to cease out of Noph; there will be no more a prince of the land of Egypt: I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.

  • 15 And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; with his mighty wind he shall shake his hand over the River, and shall strike it in the seven streams, and make men cross over dry-shod.

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    15 When I make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country is destitute of all that which it was full, when I strike all those who dwell therein, then shall they know that I am the LORD.

    16 This is the lamentation with which they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her, for Egypt, and for all her multitude, says the Lord GOD.

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    10 Thus says the Lord GOD; I will make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.

    11 He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, will be brought to destroy the land: they will draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.

  • Jer 46:13-14
    2 verses
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    13 The word that the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon would come and strike the land of Egypt.

    14 Declare in Egypt, and proclaim in Migdol, and proclaim in Noph and in Tahpanhes: say, Stand fast, and prepare yourself; for the sword shall devour around you.

  • 12 By the swords of the mighty will I cause your multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall plunder the pomp of Egypt, and all its multitude shall be destroyed.

  • 18 Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very severe hail, such as has not been in Egypt since its foundation until now.

  • 19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

  • Jer 44:12-13
    2 verses
    69%

    12 And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even to the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.

    13 For I will punish those who dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence:

  • 19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

  • 18 To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and its kings, and its princes, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;

  • 12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.

  • 20 And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and you shall know that I am the LORD.

  • 6 For behold, they are gone because of destruction; Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them; nettles shall possess their precious silver places; thorns shall be in their tents.