Isaiah 19:12

Isaiah 19:12 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the Lord of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.
• New International Version (NIV)Where are your wise men now? Let them show you and make known what the Lord Almighty has planned against Egypt.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you that they might know what the Lord of hosts has purposed against Egypt.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Where are they? Where are your wise men? Let them tell you now, And let them know what the Lord of hosts has purposed against Egypt.

Context of Isaiah 19:12

10Her pillars will be crushed, All hired workers will be grieved in soul. 11The princes of Zoan are utter fools. Pharaoh’s wisest counselors are stupid. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am the son of the wise, a son of ancient kings”? Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you now! Let them know what Adonai-Tzva’ot has purposed against Egypt. 13The princes of Zoan are fools. the princes of Noph are deceived. The cornerstone of her tribes have led Egypt astray. 14Adonai has mixed within her a spirit of dizziness. They make Egypt stagger in every work, as a drunkard staggers in his vomit.

Isaiah 19:12 word by word

אַיָּם֙ אֵפ֣וֹא חֲכָמֶ֔יךָ וְיַגִּ֥ידוּ נָ֖א לָ֑ךְ וְיֵ֣דְע֔וּ מַה־יָּעַ֛ץ יְהוָ֥ה צְבָא֖וֹת עַל־מִצְרָֽיִם׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Whereאַי'ay · where?H335
• they? whereאֵפוֹ'êphô 'êphô' · thenH645
• thy wiseחָכָםchâkâm · wiseH2450
• and let them tellנָגַדnâgad · to tellH5046
• thee now, and let them knowיָדַעyâda‛ · to knowH3045
• what the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• of hostsצָבָאtsâbâ' tsebâ'âh · HostsH6635
• hath purposedיָעַץyâ‛ats · to adviseH3289
• upon Egyptמִצְרַ֫יִםmitsrayim · EgyptH4714

Cross-references for Isaiah 19:12

• Isaiah 5:21Oy to those who are wise in their own eyes, and clever in their own sight!
• Isaiah 47:10You felt secure in your wickedness, You said, “No one sees me.” Your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray, so you have said in your heart, “I am—there is no one else beside me!”
• Judges 9:38Then Zebul said to him, “Where is your mouth now? With it you said, ‘Who is Abimelech that we should serve him?’ Isn’t this the people that you have trashed? Now go out and fight him!”
• Jeremiah 2:28Where are your gods that you made for yourself? Let them come—if they can save you when you are in trouble! For you have as many gods as y0u have cities, O Judah.
• 1 Corinthians 1:20Where is the wise one? Where is the Torah scholar? Where is the debater of this age? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
• Isaiah 40:13Who can fathom the Ruach Adonai? Or instruct Him as His counselor?
• Isaiah 41:22Let them bring forth and tell us what will happen. The former things, what were they? Tell us, that we may consider them and know their outcome. Or announce to us things to come.
• Isaiah 44:7Who is like Me? Let him proclaim and announce it! Let him arrange it in order for Me— as I established the ancient nation. Let them declare to them what is coming and future events.
• Job 11:6and show you the secrets of wisdom— for sound wisdom has two sides. Know that God has forgotten some of your iniquity.
• Romans 11:33O the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and how incomprehensible His ways!

Commentaries on Isaiah 19:12

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 12"Let them come" - Here too a word seems to have been left out of the text. After חכמיך chochameycha, thy wise men, two MSS., one ancient, add יבאו yibu, let them come; which, if we consider the form and construction of the sentence, has very much the appearance of being genuine: otherwise the connective conjunction at the beginning of the next member is not only superfluous but embarrassing. See also the Version of the Septuagint, in which the same…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 12Where are they? - This whole verse is an appeal by the prophet to the king of Egypt respecting the counselors and soothsayers of his kingdom. The sense is, a time of distress and danger is evidently coming upon Egypt. They pretend to be wise; and there is now occasion for all their wisdom, and opportunity to evince it. Let them show it. Let them declare what is coming upon the nation, and take proper measures to meet and remove it; and they will then…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 12Where are your wise men now?: Compare 1 Corinthians 1:20.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1212. let them know--that is, How is it that, with all their boast of knowing the future [Diodorus, 1.81], they do not know what Jehovah of hosts ...Read the comment

Topics related to Isaiah 19:12

• Sorcery
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In the dictionaries

• Egypt
• Wise men
• Lord of Hosts
• Evil
• Ezekiel
• Isaiah
• Wisdom

Commentaries on Isaiah 19

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings