Thumbing through Isaiah recently I was startled to find this: after a passage (in Isaiah 19) in which the prophet describes horrors that caused the hearts of the Egyptians to "melt within them," he predicts that "the people will turn to the Lord, and he will respond to their pleas and heal them." The next lines describe how three bitter enemies—Egypt, Assyria, and Israel—will "worship together" and how all three will become "a blessing on the earth. The Lord Almighty will bless them, saying, 'Bl.