2-4. God says, “I’ll make Egyptian fight Egyptian,brother fight brother, neighbor fight neighbor,City fight city, kingdom fight kingdom—anarchy and chaos and killing!I’ll knock the wind out of the Egyptians.They won’t know coming from going.They’ll go to their god-idols for answers;they’ll conjure ghosts and hold séances, desperate for answers.But I’ll turn the Egyptiansover to a tyrant most cruel.I’ll put them under the rule of a mean, merciless king.”Decree of the Master, God-of-the-Angel-Armies.
23. On that Day, there will be a highway all the way from Egypt to Assyria: Assyrians will have free range in Egypt and Egyptians in Assyria. No longer rivals, they’ll worship together, Egyptians and Assyrians!
24-25. On that Day, Israel will take its place alongside Egypt and Assyria, sharing the blessing from the center. God-of-the-Angel-Armies, who blessed Israel, will generously bless them all: “Blessed be Egypt, my people! . . . Blessed be Assyria, work of my hands! . . . Blessed be Israel, my heritage!”