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Bible study · Isaiah 19:1-25

Isaiah 19: The burden of Egypt

Read Isaiah 19:1-25 before you meet.

In a few lines

Isaiah 19 has words that Exodus has in Egypt's story. Egypt cries to the LORD "because of oppressors" (19:20), with the verb of Exodus 3:9, and he sends them a savior; "The LORD will strike Egypt, striking and healing" (19:22), with the verb Exodus has at the Passover. And he calls Egypt by a name Isaiah elsewhere gives his own people: "Egypt my people" (19:25).

The verse to carry

“because the LORD of Armies has blessed them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.””

Isaiah 19:25

To talk about

  1. 1. Egypt's wisest counselors couldn't tell what the LORD had purposed (19:11-12). When you don't know what to do, where do you go for counsel, and how do you weigh what you hear?

  2. 2. "They will return to the LORD, and he will be entreated by them, and will heal them" (19:22). What has turned you back toward God in your own life?

  3. 3. In 19:25 the LORD calls Egypt, the land of Israel's old bondage, "my people". How might this verse change the way you pray for someone you find hard to love?

Prayer requests