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11 The officials of Zoan are complete fools.
Pharaoh’s wisest counselors give unreasonable advice.
How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am a son of wise men,
a son of ancient kings”?
12 Where then are your wise men?
Let them tell you now!
Let them make known what the Lord of Armies
    has planned against Egypt.
13 The officials of Zoan act like fools.
The officials of Memphis[a] are deceived.
They have caused Egypt to go astray—
these cornerstones of her tribes!

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 19:13 Hebrew Noph. Many of the English names of Egyptian cities are based on the Greek forms of their names.