New American Standard Bible 1995

Isaiah 19:11-16

11The princes of 1 2Zoan are mere fools; The advice of Pharaoh’s wisest advisers has become 3stupid. How can you men say to Pharaoh, “I am a son of the 4wise, a son of ancient kings”?12Well then, where are your wise men? Please let them tell you, And let them 5understand what the Lord of hosts Has 6purposed against Egypt.13The princes of 7Zoan have acted foolishly, The princes of 8Memphis are deluded; Those who are the 9cornerstone of her tribes Have 10led Egypt astray.14The Lord has mixed within her a spirit of 11distortion; 12They have led Egypt astray in all 13that it does, As a 14drunken man 15staggers in his vomit.15There will be no work for Egypt 16Which its head or tail, its palm branch or bulrush, may do.

16In that day the Egyptians will become like women, and they will tremble and be in 17dread because of the 18waving of the hand of the Lord of hosts, which He is going to wave over them.

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Notes

1. Isaiah 19:11 Or Tanis ↩
2. Isaiah 19:11 Num 13:22; Ps 78:12, 43; Is 30:4 ↩
3. Isaiah 19:11 Or brutish ↩
4. Isaiah 19:11 Gen 41:38, 39; 1 Kin 4:30; Acts 7:22 ↩
5. Isaiah 19:12 Or know ↩
6. Isaiah 19:12 Is 14:24; Rom 9:17 ↩
7. Isaiah 19:13 Or Tanis ↩
8. Isaiah 19:13 Jer 2:16; 46:14, 19; Ezek 30:13 ↩
9. Isaiah 19:13 Zech 10:4 ↩
10. Isaiah 19:13 Or have caused Egypt to stagger ↩
11. Isaiah 19:14 Prov 12:8; Matt 17:17 ↩
12. Isaiah 19:14 Is 3:12; 9:16 ↩
13. Isaiah 19:14 Lit its work ↩
14. Isaiah 19:14 Is 28:7 ↩
15. Isaiah 19:14 Or goes astray ↩
16. Isaiah 19:15 Is 9:14, 15 ↩
17. Isaiah 19:16 2 Cor 5:11; Heb 10:31 ↩
18. Isaiah 19:16 Is 11:15 ↩

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