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12 Egypt, where are your wise men?
    Let them show you
what the Lord ·All-Powerful [Almighty; of Heaven’s Armies; T of hosts] has planned for Egypt.
13 The officers of Zoan [v. 11] have ·been fooled [become fools];
    the ·leaders [princes] of Memphis [C prominent city in northern Egypt] ·have believed false things [are deceived/deluded].
So the ·leaders of Egypt [L cornerstones of her tribes]
    lead that nation ·the wrong way [astray].
14 The Lord has ·made the leaders confused [L mixed into them a spirit of distortion].
    They have led Egypt to ·wander in the wrong ways [or err in all it does],
    like drunk people stumbling in their own vomit.

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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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