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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!
14 The Lord has poured a confused spirit into them.
They made Egypt go astray in everything it does,
like a drunken man staggering around in his own vomit.

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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.

12 Where are your wise men(A) now?
    Let them show you and make known
what the Lord Almighty
    has planned(B) against Egypt.
13 The officials of Zoan(C) have become fools,
    the leaders of Memphis(D) are deceived;
the cornerstones(E) of her peoples
    have led Egypt astray.
14 The Lord has poured into them
    a spirit of dizziness;(F)
they make Egypt stagger in all that she does,
    as a drunkard staggers(G) around in his vomit.

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