¹⁸ In that day^(A) five cities^(B) in Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance^(C) to the Lord Almighty. One of them will be called the City of the Sun.^[a](D)

Restoration of Israel’s Remnant

¹¹ “Many nations will be joined with the Lord in that day and will become my people.^(A) I will live among you and you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent me to you.^(B)

²¹ So the Lord will make himself known to the Egyptians, and in that day they will acknowledge^(A) the Lord. They will worship^(B) with sacrifices and grain offerings; they will make vows to the Lord and keep them.^(C)

¹⁶ And if they learn^(A) well the ways of my people and swear by my name, saying, ‘As surely as the Lord lives’^(B)—even as they once taught my people to swear by Baal^(C)—then they will be established among my people.^(D)

¹¹ In that day^(A) the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to reclaim the surviving remnant^(B) of his people from Assyria,^(C) from Lower Egypt, from Upper Egypt,^(D) from Cush,^[a](E) from Elam,^(F) from Babylonia,^[b] from Hamath^(G) and from the islands^(H) of the Mediterranean.^(I)

¹³ And in that day^(A) a great trumpet^(B) will sound. Those who were perishing in Assyria and those who were exiled^(C) in Egypt^(D) will come and worship^(E) the Lord on the holy mountain^(F) in Jerusalem.

¹⁹ In that day^(A) there will be an altar^(B) to the Lord in the heart of Egypt,^(C) and a monument^(D) to the Lord at its border.