Isaiah 19:16 “In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will tremble with f…”

Isaiah 19:16

In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will tremble with fear beneath the uplifted hand of the LORD of Hosts, when He brandishes it against them.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shaketh over it.

World English Bible

In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will tremble and fear because of the shaking of the LORD of Armies’s hand, which he shakes over them.

American Standard Version

In that day shall the Egyptians be like unto women; and they shall tremble and fear because of the shaking of the hand of Jehovah of hosts, which he shaketh over them.

Geneva Bible 1599

In that day shall Egypt be like vnto women: for it shall be afraide and feare because of the moouing of the hand of the Lord of hostes, which he shaketh ouer it.

Darby Translation

In that day shall Egypt be like unto women; and it shall tremble and fear because of the shaking of the hand of Jehovah of hosts, which he shaketh over it.

Young's Literal Translation

In that day is Egypt like women, And it hath mourned, and been afraid, Because of the waving of the hand of Jehovah of Hosts, That He is waving over it.

Bible in Basic English

In that day the Egyptians will be like women: and the land will be shaking with fear because of the waving of the Lord's hand stretched out over it.

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Cross references

“like”

Jeremiah 51:30 Nahum 3:13 Jeremiah 30:5–7 Jeremiah 50:37 Isaiah 30:17 Psalm 48:6

Jeremiah 51:30 · BSB

The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting; they sit in their strongholds. Their strength is exhausted; they have become like women. Babylon’s homes have been set ablaze, the bars of her gates are broken.

Nahum 3:13 · BSB

Look at your troops— they are like your women! The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire consumes their bars.

Jeremiah 30:5–7 · BSB

Yes, this is what the LORD says: “A cry of panic is heard— a cry of terror, not of peace.

Jeremiah 50:37 · BSB

A sword is against her horses and chariots and against all the foreigners in her midst, and they will become like women. A sword is against her treasuries, and they will be plundered.

Isaiah 30:17 · BSB

A thousand will flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five you will all flee, until you are left alone like a pole on a mountaintop, like a banner on a hill.

Psalm 48:6 · BSB

Trembling seized them there, anguish like a woman in labor.

“the shaking”

Isaiah 11:15 Isaiah 10:32 Zechariah 2:9 Isaiah 30:30–32

Isaiah 11:15 · BSB

The LORD will devote to destruction the gulf of the Sea of Egypt; with a scorching wind He will sweep His hand over the Euphrates. He will split it into seven streams for men to cross with dry sandals.

Isaiah 10:32 · BSB

Yet today they will halt at Nob, shaking a fist at the mount of Daughter Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem.

Zechariah 2:9 · BSB

I will surely wave My hand over them, so that they will become plunder for their own servants. Then you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me.”

Isaiah 30:30–32 · BSB

And the LORD will cause His majestic voice to be heard and His mighty arm to be revealed, striking in angry wrath with a flame of consuming fire, and with cloudburst, storm, and hailstones.

Also

Hebrews 10:31

Hebrews 10:31 · BSB

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

15There is nothing Egypt can do— head or tail, palm or reed.

17The land of Judah will bring terror to Egypt; whenever Judah is mentioned, Egypt will tremble over what the LORD of Hosts has planned against it.

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