And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them.
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Gill's Exposition
And the Lord shall smite Egypt,.... By one afflictive providence or another, which shall awaken them to a sense of sin and duty; or smite their consciences with convictions of sin, through the…
Barnes' Notes
And the Lord shall smite Egypt - That is, in the manner described in the previous part of this prophecy Isa 19:2-10. And heal it - Or restore it to more than its former splendor and prosperity, as…
Out of the thick and threatening clouds of the foregoing prophecy the sun of comfort here breaks forth, and it is the sun of righteousness. Still God has mercy in store for Egypt, and he will show it,…
Cambridge Bible
he shall smite and heal it lit. "with a smiting and a healing," i.e. He will smite only in order to heal (Hos 6:1). be intreated hear their supplications (Niph. tolerativum).
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