KJV King James Version
Surely the princes of Zoan [are] fools, the counsel of the wise counsellers of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I [am] the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
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Isaiah 19:11
Surely the princes of Zoan [are] fools, the counsel of the wise counsellers of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I [am] the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
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”?
WEB World English Bible
The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish. The counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become stupid. How do you say to Pharaoh, “I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?”
ASV American Standard Version
The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the counsel of the wisest counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
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?’
Surrounding context — Isaiah 19
8 The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.
9 Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.
10 And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices [and] ponds for fish.
11 Surely the princes of Zoan [are] fools, the counsel of the wise counsellers of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I [am] the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
12 Where [are] they? where [are] thy wise [men]? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.
13 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.
14 The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken [man] staggereth in his vomit.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
אַךְ־H389 · akhsurelyאֱוִלִים֙H191 · e.vilfool(ish)שָׂ֣רֵיH8269 · sarrulerצֹ֔עַןH6814 · tso.anZoanחַכְמֵי֙H2450 · cha.khamwiseיֹעֲצֵ֣יH6098 · e.tsahcounselפַרְעֹ֔הH6547 · par.ohPharaohעֵצָ֖הH6098 · e.tsahcounselנִבְעָרָ֑הH1197 · ba.arto burn: burnאֵ֚יךְH349 · ekhhow?תֹּאמְר֣וּH559 · a.marto sayאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)פַּרְעֹ֔הH6547 · par.ohPharaohבֶּן־H1121 · benson: childחֲכָמִ֥יםH2450 · cha.khamwiseאֲנִ֖יH589 · a.niIבֶּן־H1121 · benson: childמַלְכֵי־H4428 · me.lekhkingקֶֽדֶם׃H6924 · qe.demEast
Cross-references
Numbers 13:22And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, [were]. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)Isaiah 30:4For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.Psalm 78:43How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:Acts 7:22And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.1 Kings 4:30And Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.Psalm 78:12Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, [in] the field of Zoan.Genesis 41:38-39And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find [such a one] as this [is], a man in whom the Spirit of God [is]?Psalm 92:6A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.Jeremiah 10:14Every man is brutish in [his] knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image [is] falsehood, and [there is] no breath in them.Isaiah 19:3And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.Psalm 73:22So foolish [was] I, and ignorant: I was [as] a beast before thee.Isaiah 29:14Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, [even] a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise [men] shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent [men] shall be hid.Isaiah 19:13The 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.Psalm 33:10The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.Jeremiah 49:7Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; [Is] wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?Jeremiah 10:21For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.Proverbs 30:2Surely I [am] more brutish than [any] man, and have not the understanding of a man.1 Corinthians 1:19-20For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
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