Isaiah 19:13

Yes, the officials of Zoan have become foolish, and the leaders in Memphis city in northern Egypt have deceived themselves. All the leaders of the people have ◄caused their people to do wrong things/led their people astray►.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.

In Context

12King, ◄where are your wise counselors now?/You have no wise counselors now!► [RHQ] If you had any wise counselors, they could tell you what the Commander of the armies of angels has planned to do to Egypt [SAR]!

14Yahweh has caused them to be very foolish, with the result that in everything that they do, it is as though the people of Egypt stagger like [SIM] a drunken person staggers and slips in his own vomit.

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Cross References

Numbers 24:17The things that I see in the vision are not going to happen now; I see things that God will cause to happen in the future. A man who is a descendant of Jacob will appear like a star [MET]; a king who holds a scepter will be one of the Israeli people. He will crush the heads of you people of Moab; he will wipe out the descendants of Seth.

Isaiah 19:11The officials in Zoan city in northern Egypt are foolish. The advice that they gave to the king was worthless. Why do they continue to tell the king that they are wise, that they are descendants of wise kings who lived long ago [RHQ]?

Jeremiah 44:1This is the message that Yahweh gave me concerning the Jews who were living in northern Egypt—in Migdol, Tahpenes, and Memphis cities, and in the Pathros region in southern Egypt:

Jeremiah 46:19All you people who live in Egypt, pack your possessions/clothes and prepare to be exiled. Memphis city will be destroyed; it will become a ruin, and no one will be living there.

Ezekiel 30:16I will burn Egypt by fires; the people in Pelusium will suffer severe pain. Enemies will conquer Thebes, and the people in Memphis will constantly be terrified.

Zechariah 10:4From Judah will come rulers who will be very important, like [MET] a cornerstone is the most important stone for a house, like [MET] a tent peg is very important for a tent, like [MET] a bow is very important for ◄an archer/a man who shoots arrows►.

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 →

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