| Isa 19:1 | The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it. |
| Isa 19:2 | And I will set the Egyptians against the
Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every
one against his neighbour; city against city, [and] kingdom against
kingdom.
CAIRO |
(Reuters) - At least 24 people died across Egypt
on Friday as Islamists opposed to the overthrow of President Mohamed
Mursi took to the streets to vent their fury at what they say was a
military coup.
Fierce clashes in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria left 12 dead and 200 injured, while in Cairo, five people were killed as pro- and anti-Mursi protesters ran amok in central areas and armored personnel carriers rumbled among them to restore calm. Five police officers were gunned down in separate incidents in the North Sinai town of El Arish, and while it was not clear whether the attacks were linked to Mursi's ouster, hardline Islamists there have warned they would fight back. Kingdom against KingdomTUNIS | The 54-nation African Union was likely to suspend Egypt for allowing "unconstitutional change", a senior AU source told Reuters. Across the Middle East, governments reacted to Mursi's fall in ways that reflected their embrace or loathing of political Islam. |
| Isa 19:3 | And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst
thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to
the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits,
and to the wizards.
"Egyptians are deeply religious and superstitious at all levels of
society. That is certain. Rich and poor alike keep talismans or purify
their homes with incense. It is not unusual for Egyptians to observe the
strictest religious rituals and, at the same time and without any sense
of contradiction, hold to a belief in the protective blue bead,
fortune-telling games, purifying with incense, palmistry and offerings
to the divine (if only a piece of cloth), not to mention sacrifices..."
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| Isa 19:4 |
And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts. |
| Isa 19:5 | And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up. |
| Isa 19:6 | And they shall turn the rivers far away; [and] the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither. |
| Isa 19:7 | The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no [more]. |
| Isa 19:8 | The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish. |
| Isa 19:9 | Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded. |
| Isa 19:10 | And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices [and] ponds for fish. |
"...According to Dia El-Quosy, the former chairman of Egypt’s National Water
Research Centre, the dam will reduce water flow anywhere from 1,300
billion gallons to 6,600 billion gallons per year. El-Quosy also argues
that the reduction in water flow would increase pollution in the river
and harm the fisheries in Egypt, as well as making it difficult for
ferries and other boats to navigate the river. Another serious concern,
el-Quosy says, is the possible reduction in fertility for farmland along
the banks of the river that could be caused by the dam holding back
nutrient-rich salts. He claims that every 260 billion gallon reduction
in water flow created by the dam will mean half a million farmers lose
their farms. “So if we lose 30bn kilolitres (8,000 billion gallons) in
water flow, that would mean losing 25% of Egypt’s cultivated land,” he
says....
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