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13 The royal officials in Zoan
and in Memphis
    are foolish and deceived.
The leaders in every state
have given bad advice
    to the nation.
14 The Lord has confused Egypt;
its leaders have made it stagger
    and vomit like a drunkard.
15 No one in Egypt can do a thing,
    no matter who they are.

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13 The officials of Zoan(A) have become fools,
    the leaders of Memphis(B) are deceived;
the cornerstones(C) of her peoples
    have led Egypt astray.
14 The Lord has poured into them
    a spirit of dizziness;(D)
they make Egypt stagger in all that she does,
    as a drunkard staggers(E) around in his vomit.
15 There is nothing Egypt can do—
    head or tail, palm branch or reed.(F)

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