Isaiah 19:11
The princes of Zoan are mere fools; Pharaoh’s wise counselors give senseless advice. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am one of the wise, a son of eastern kings”?
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
10The workers in cloth will be dejected, and all the hired workers will be sick at heart.
Cross References
Exodus 8:4The frogs will come up on you and your people and all your officials.’”
Numbers 13:22They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, dwelled. It had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.
1 Kings 5:10So Hiram provided Solomon with all the cedar and cypress timber he wanted,
Job 12:17He leads counselors away barefoot and makes fools of judges.
Psalms 73:22I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before You.
Psalms 78:43when He performed His signs in Egypt and His wonders in the fields 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 →