Isaiah 19:13
Good News Translation
The leaders of Zoan and Memphis are fools. They were supposed to lead the nation, but they have misled it.

New Revised Standard Version
The princes of Zoan have become fools, and the princes of Memphis are deluded; those who are the cornerstones of its tribes have led Egypt astray.

Contemporary English Version
The royal officials in Zoan and in Memphis are foolish and deceived. The leaders in every state have given bad advice to the nation.

New American Bible
The princes of Zoan have become fools, the princes of Memphis have been deceived. The chiefs of its tribes have led Egypt astray.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The princes of Tanis are become fools, the princes of Memphis are gone astray, they have deceived Egypt, the stay of the people thereof.

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The princes of Tanis are become fools, the princes of Memphis are gone astray, they have deceived Egypt, the stay of the people thereof.

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Isaiah 19:11 The princes of Tanis are become fools, the wise counsellors of Pharao have given foolish counsel: how will you say to Pharao: I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

Romans 1:22 For, professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.

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Jeremiah 2:16 The children also of Memphis, and of Taphnes have defloured thee, even to the crown of the head.

Jeremiah 46:14,19 Declare ye to Egypt, and publish it in Magdal, and let it be known in Memphis, and in Taphnis: say ye: Stand up, and prepare thyself: for the sword shall devour all round about thee. . . .

Ezekiel 30:13 Thus saith the Lord God: I will also destroy the idols, and I will make an end of the idols of Memphis: and there shall: be no more a prince of the land of Egypt and I will cause a terror in the land of Egypt.

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Numbers 24:17 I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not near. A STAR SHALL RISE out of Jacob and a sceptre shall spring up from Israel: and shall strike the chiefs of Moab, and shall waste all the children of Seth

1 Samuel 14:38 And Saul said: Bring hither all the corners of the people: and know, and see by whom this sin hath happened to day.

Zechariah 10:4 Out of him shall come forth the corner, out of him the pin, out of him the bow of battle, out of him every exacter together.

1 Peter 2:7 To you therefore that believe, he is honour: but to them that believe not, the stone which the builders rejected, the same is made the head of the corner:

Context
An Oracle Concerning Egypt
12Where are now thy wise men? let them tell thee, and shew what the Lord of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt. 13The princes of Tanis are become fools, the princes of Memphis are gone astray, they have deceived Egypt, the stay of the people thereof.14The Lord hath mingled in the midst thereof the spirit of giddiness: and they have caused Egypt to err in all its works, as a drunken man staggereth and vomiteth.…
Cross References
Jeremiah 2:16
The children also of Memphis, and of Taphnes have defloured thee, even to the crown of the head.

Jeremiah 44:1
The word that came to Jeremiah, concerning all the Jews that dwelt in the land of Egypt, dwelling in Magdal, and in Taphnis, and in Memphis, and in the land of Phatures, saying:

Jeremiah 46:14
Declare ye to Egypt, and publish it in Magdal, and let it be known in Memphis, and in Taphnis: say ye: Stand up, and prepare thyself: for the sword shall devour all round about thee.

Jeremiah 46:19
Furnish thyself to go into captivity, thou daughter inhabitant of Egypt: for Memphis shall be made desolate, and shall be forsaken and uninhabited.

Ezekiel 30:13
Thus saith the Lord God: I will also destroy the idols, and I will make an end of the idols of Memphis: and there shall: be no more a prince of the land of Egypt and I will cause a terror in the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 30:14
And I will destroy the land of Phatures, and will make a fire in Taphnis, and will execute judgments in Alexandria.

Hosea 9:6
For behold they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them together, Memphis shall bury them: nettles shall inherit their beloved silver, the bur shall be in their tabernacles.

Zechariah 10:4
Out of him shall come forth the corner, out of him the pin, out of him the bow of battle, out of him every exacter together.

Isaiah 19:12
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