Isaiah 19:12
Where are your wise men now? Let them announce it to you, and let them reveal what the Lord of hosts intends for Egypt.
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Judges 9:38And Zebul said to him: “Where is your mouth now, with which you said, ‘Who is Abimelech that we should serve him?’ Is this not the people that you were despising? Go out and fight against him.”
Isaiah 5:21Woe to you who are wise in your own eyes, and prudent in your own sight!
Isaiah 40:13Who has assisted the Spirit of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor and has revealed things to him?
Isaiah 41:23Announce the things that will occur in the future, and we will know that you are gods. Likewise, accomplish good or evil, if you are able, and let us speak of it and see it together.
Isaiah 47:10And you have trusted in your malice, and you have said: “There is no one who sees me.” Your wisdom and your knowledge, these have deceived you. And you have said in your heart: “I am, and beside me there is no other.”
Obadiah 1:8Shall I not, in that day, says the Lord, wipe away understanding from Idumea and foresight from the mount of Esau?
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 19:2-18
The Doom of Egypt. ( b. c. 710.) 1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the Lord rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it. 2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom. 3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel… Read the whole commentary →