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13 The princes of Zoan have become fools,
    and the princes of Memphis deluded;
the leaders[a] of its tribes
    have led Egypt astray.
14 The Lord has mixed[b] within them[c] a spirit of confusion;
    so they make Egypt stagger in all that it does,
        like a drunkard staggers around in his vomit.
15 As a result, there will be nothing for Egypt
    that head or tail, palm branch or reed, can do.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 19:13 Or cornerstones
  2. Isaiah 19:14 So 1QIsaa MT LXX; 4QIsab reads has poured
  3. Isaiah 19:14 Lit. it
  4. Isaiah 19:15 So 1QIsaa MT LXX; 4QIsab reads do at that time