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Isaiah 19:11-16
New International Version
Isaiah 19:11-16
New International Version
11 The officials of Zoan(A) are nothing but fools;
the wise counselors(B) of Pharaoh give senseless advice.(C)
How can you say to Pharaoh,
“I am one of the wise men,(D)
a disciple of the ancient kings”?
12 Where are your wise men(E) now?
Let them show you and make known
what the Lord Almighty
has planned(F) against Egypt.
13 The officials of Zoan(G) have become fools,
the leaders of Memphis(H) are deceived;
the cornerstones(I) of her peoples
have led Egypt astray.
14 The Lord has poured into them
a spirit of dizziness;(J)
they make Egypt stagger in all that she does,
as a drunkard staggers(K) around in his vomit.
15 There is nothing Egypt can do—
head or tail, palm branch or reed.(L)
16 In that day(M) the Egyptians will become weaklings.(N) They will shudder with fear(O) at the uplifted hand(P) that the Lord Almighty raises against them.
Isaiah 19:11-16
King James Version
Isaiah 19:11-16
King James Version
11 Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
12 Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the Lord of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.
13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.
14 The Lord hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
15 Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.
16 In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the Lord of hosts, which he shaketh over it.
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