10 The workers in cloth will be dejected, and all the wage earners will be sick at heart.
10 Those who are the pillars of the land will be crushed, and all who work for pay will be grieved.
10 Dispirited, depressed in their forced idleness - everyone who works for a living, jobless.
10 And its foundations will be broken. All who make wages will be troubled of soul.
10 They will be in despair, and all the workers will be sick at heart.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Isaiah 19:10
Commentary on Isaiah 19:1-17
(Read Isaiah 19:1-17)
God shall come into Egypt with his judgments. He will raise up the causes of their destruction from among themselves. When ungodly men escape danger, they are apt to think themselves secure; but evil pursues sinners, and will speedily overtake them, except they repent. The Egyptians will be given over into the hand of one who shall rule them with rigour, as was shortly after fulfilled. The Egyptians were renowned for wisdom and science; yet the Lord would give them up to their own perverse schemes, and to quarrel, till their land would be brought by their contests to become an object of contempt and pity. He renders sinners afraid of those whom they have despised and oppressed; and the Lord of hosts will make the workers of iniquity a terror to themselves, and to each other; and every object around a terror to them.