Isaiah 19:11
The princes of Zoan are utter fools; the wisest counsellors of Pharaoh are a senseless counsel; how can ye say unto Pharaoh: 'I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings'?
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
10And her foundations shall be crushed, all they that make dams shall be grieved in soul.
Cross References
Exodus 8:4(7-29) And the frogs shall come up both upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants.'
Numbers 13:22And they went up into the South, and came unto Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. — Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt. —
1 Kings 5:10(5-24) So Hiram gave Solomon timber of cedar and timber of cypress according to all his desire.
Job 12:17He leadeth counsellors away stripped, and judges maketh He fools.
Psalms 73:22But I was brutish, and ignorant; I was as a beast before Thee.
Psalms 78:43How He set His signs in Egypt, and His wonders in the field of Zoan;
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 →