Isaiah 19:11

Oracle Of Judgment On Egypt

¹⁰ Those who make cloth will be demoralized; all the hired workers will be depressed. ¹¹ The officials of Zoan are nothing but fools; Pharaoh's wise advisers give stupid advice. How dare you say to Pharaoh, "I am one of the sages, one well-versed in the writings of the ancient kings?" ¹² But where, oh where, are your wise men? Let them tell you, let them find out what the Lord who commands armies has planned for Egypt.

Wise Counsel

Wise Men

Pharaoh

Zoan

Numbers 13:22

When they went up through the Negev, they came to Hebron where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, descendants of Anak, were living. (Now Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

1 Kings 4:30

Solomon was wiser than all the men of the east and all the sages of Egypt.

Psalm 78:43

when he performed his awesome deeds in Egypt, and his acts of judgment in the region of Zoan.

Isaiah 30:4

Though his officials are in Zoan and his messengers arrive at Hanes,

Acts 7:22

So Moses was trained in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in his words and deeds.

Genesis 41:38-39

So Pharaoh asked his officials, "Can we find a man like Joseph, one in whom the Spirit of God is present?"

Psalm 78:12

He did amazing things in the sight of their ancestors, in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.

Job 5:12-13

He frustrates the plans of the crafty so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had planned!

Job 12:17

He leads counselors away stripped and makes judges into fools.

Psalm 33:10

The Lord frustrates the decisions of the nations; he nullifies the plans of the peoples.

Psalm 73:22

I was ignorant and lacked insight; I was as senseless as an animal before you.

Psalm 92:6

The spiritually insensitive do not recognize this; the fool does not understand this.

Proverbs 30:2

Surely I am more brutish than any other human being, and I do not have human understanding;

Isaiah 19:3

The Egyptians will panic, and I will confuse their strategy. They will seek guidance from the idols and from the spirits of the dead, from the pits used to conjure up underworld spirits, and from the magicians.

Isaiah 19:13

The officials of Zoan are fools, the officials of Memphis are misled; the rulers of her tribes lead Egypt astray.

Isaiah 29:14

Therefore I will again do an amazing thing for these people -- an absolutely extraordinary deed. Wise men will have nothing to say, the sages will have no explanations."

Isaiah 44:25

who frustrates the omens of the empty talkers and humiliates the omen readers, who overturns the counsel of the wise men and makes their advice seem foolish,

Jeremiah 10:14

All these idolaters will prove to be stupid and ignorant. Every goldsmith will be disgraced by the idol he made. For the image he forges is merely a sham. There is no breath in any of those idols.

Jeremiah 10:21

For our leaders are stupid. They have not sought the Lord's advice. So they do not act wisely, and the people they are responsible for have all been scattered.

Jeremiah 49:7

The Lord who rules over all spoke about Edom. "Is wisdom no longer to be found in Teman? Can Edom's counselors not give her any good advice? Has all of their wisdom turned bad?

Ezekiel 7:26

Disaster after disaster will come, and one rumor after another. They will seek a vision from a prophet; priestly instruction will disappear, along with counsel from the elders.

Ezekiel 30:14

I will desolate Pathros, I will ignite a fire in Zoan, and I will execute judgments on Thebes.

1 Corinthians 1:19-20

For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will thwart the cleverness of the intelligent."