Isaiah 19:11-15 ▼

11 The princes of Zoan are merely ignorant fools; The counsel of Pharaoh’s wisest counselors has become senseless. How can you men say to Pharaoh, “I am a son of the wise, a son of the kings of old”?

12 Well then, where are your wise men? Please let them tell you, And let them understand what Yahweh of hosts Has counseled against Egypt.

13 The princes of Zoan have acted as ignorant fools, The princes of Memphis are deluded; Those who are the cornerstone of her tribes Have led Egypt astray.

14 Yahweh has mixed within her a spirit of distortion; They have led Egypt astray in all that it does, As a drunken man strays into his vomit.

15 There will be no work for Egypt Which its head or tail, its palm branch or bulrush, may do.