Isaiah 19:12 Where are your wise men now? Let them show you and make known what the LORD Almighty has planned against Egypt.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Where are your wise men now? Let them show you and make known what the LORD Almighty has planned against Egypt.

English Standard Version
Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you that they might know what the LORD of hosts has purposed against Egypt.

New American Standard Bible
Well then, where are your wise men? Please let them tell you, And let them understand what the LORD of hosts Has purposed against Egypt.

King James Bible
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you and reveal what the LORD of Hosts has planned against Egypt.

International Standard Version
Where are your wise men now? Let them tell you, let them make known what the LORD has planned against Egypt.

American Standard Version
Where then are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now; and let them know what Jehovah of hosts hath purposed concerning Egypt.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Where are now thy wise men? let them tell thee, and shew what the Lord of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.

Darby Bible Translation
Where are they then, thy wise men? Let them now tell thee, and let them make known what Jehovah of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.

Young's Literal Translation
Where are they now, thy wise ones? Yea, let them tell to thee, I pray thee, And they know what Jehovah of Hosts hath counselled against Egypt!

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

19:1-17 God shall come into Egypt with his judgments. He will raise up the causes of their destruction from among themselves. When ungodly men escape danger, they are apt to think themselves secure; but evil pursues sinners, and will speedily overtake them, except they repent. The Egyptians will be given over into the hand of one who shall rule them with rigour, as was shortly after fulfilled. The Egyptians were renowned for wisdom and science; yet the Lord would give them up to their own perverse schemes, and to quarrel, till their land would be brought by their contests to become an object of contempt and pity. He renders sinners afraid of those whom they have despised and oppressed; and the Lord of hosts will make the workers of iniquity a terror to themselves, and to each other; and every object around a terror to them.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

12. 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 …