Isaiah 19:11

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Summary

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?

The princes

Zoan

Brutish

I am

Genesis 41:38

1 Kings 4:30

Acts 7:22

General references

Bible References

The princes

And the spirit of Egypt, shall vanish, within them, Yea the sagacity thereof, will I swallow up, - And they will seek Unto the idols and Unto them that mutter, and Unto them that have familiar spirits, and Unto the wizards;

Therefore, behold me! again dealing wonderfully with this people, doing wonderfully a wonderful thing, - So shall perish, the wisdom of their wise men, And the intelligence of their intelligent men, shall vanish!

Frustrating the signs of praters, And, diviners, he confoundeth, - Turning wise men backwards, And their knowledge, he maketh folly;

Who doth frustrate the schemes of the crafty, that their hands cannot achieve abiding success;

Who leadeth away counsellors as a spoil, and, judges, He befooleth:

Yahweh, hath frustrated the counsel of nations, hath brought to nothing the devices of peoples.

Of Edom - Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Hath counsel perished from the discerning? Is their wisdom corrupt?

Disaster upon disaster, shall come, And report after report shall arise, Therefore shall they seek a vision from prophet, And law shall perish from priest. And counsel from elders.

For it is written - I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and, the discernment of the discerning, will I set aside.

Zoan

For their princes have been, in Zoan, - And, their messengers unto Hanes, would draw near.

Yea they went up in the South and entered as far as Hebron, and there, were Ahiman Sheshai and Talmai descendants of the Anak. Now, Hebron, was built seven years, before Zoan of Egypt.

In presence of their fathers, wrought he, wondrously, - In the land of Egypt - the field of Zoan:

Then will I bring desolation upon Pathros, and Set a fire in Zoan, and Execute judgments upon No: and

Brutish

But, I, was brutish, and could not perceive, Like the beasts, had I become before thee.

A man that is brutish, cannot know, And, dullard, cannot discern this: -

Surely, more brutish, am, I, than any man, nor doth, the understanding of a son of earth, pertain to me;

Every son of earth hath become too brutish to discern, Every goldsmith, hath been put to shame by a graven image, - For a falsehood, is his molten image, Seeing there is no breath in them.

I am

and Pharaoh said unto his servants, - Can we find such a one, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?

so that, the wisdom of Solomon, excelled, the wisdom of all the sons of the East, - and all the wisdom of the Egyptians,

And, so Moses was trained in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in his words and works.

General references

both against thee, and against thy people, and against all thy servants, shall come up the frogs.

For GOD hath suffered her to forget wisdom, and given her no share in understanding.

With no guidance, a people will fall, but, safety, lieth in the greatness of the counsellor.

For it is written - I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and, the discernment of the discerning, will I set aside.