Isaiah 19:11
Only, fools [are] the princes of Zoan, The counsel of the wise ones of the counsellors of Pharaoh hath become brutish. How say ye unto Pharaoh, 'A son of the wise am I, a son of kings of antiquity?'
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
10And its foundations have been smitten, All making wages [are] afflicted in soul.
Cross References
Exodus 8:4yea, on thee, and on thy people, and on all thy servants do the frogs go up.'
Numbers 13:22and they go up by the south, and come in unto Hebron, and there [are] Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, children of Anak (and Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt),
1 Kings 5:10And Hiram is giving to Solomon cedar-trees, and fir-trees, all his desire,
Job 12:17Causing counsellors to go away a spoil, And judges He maketh foolish.
Psalms 73:22And I am brutish, and do not know. A beast I have been with Thee.
Psalms 78:43When 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 →