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12 Where are your wise men now?
    Let them tell you,
let them make known
    what the Lord[a] has planned against Egypt.
13 The princes of Zoan have become fools,
    and the princes of Memphis deluded;
the leaders[b] of its tribes
    have led Egypt astray.
14 The Lord has mixed[c] within them[d] a spirit of confusion;
    so they make Egypt stagger in all that it does,
        like a drunkard staggers around in his vomit.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 19:12 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsaa corrector MT LXX read Lord of the Heavenly Armies
  2. Isaiah 19:13 Or cornerstones
  3. Isaiah 19:14 So 1QIsaa MT LXX; 4QIsab reads has poured
  4. Isaiah 19:14 Lit. it

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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