Isaiah 19:11

And the princes of Tanis shall be fools: as for the king's wise counselors, their counsel shall be turned into folly: how will you⌃ say to the king, we are sons of wise men, sons of ancient kings?

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

In Context

10And they that work at them shall be in pain, and all that make beer shall be grieved, and be pained in their souls.

12Where are now your wise men? and let them declare to you, and say, What has the Lord of hosts purposed upon Egypt?

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Cross References

Exodus 8:4And upon you, and upon your servants, and upon your people, shall the frogs come up.

Numbers 13:22And they went up and surveyed the land from the wilderness of Sin to Rhoob, as men go in to Aemath.

1 Kings 5:10So Chiram gave to Solomon cedars, and fir trees, and all his desire.

Job 12:17He leads counselors away captive, and maddens the judges of the earth.

Psalms 73:22Arise, O God, plead your cause: remember your reproaches that come from the foolish one all the day. 1

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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