13 The princes of Zoan are become fools: the princes of [a]Noph are deceived, they have deceived Egypt, even the [b]corners of the tribes thereof.

14 The Lord hath mingled among them the spirits [c]of errors: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man erreth in his vomit.

15 Neither shall there be any work in Egypt, which the head may [d]do, nor the tail, the branch nor the rush.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 19:13 Or, Memphis, others Alexandria, and now called the great Cairo.
  2. Isaiah 19:13 The principal upholders thereof are the chiefest cause of their destruction.
  3. Isaiah 19:14 For the spirit of wisdom he hath made them drunken and giddy with the spirit of error.
  4. Isaiah 19:15 Neither the great nor the small, the strong nor the weak.

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