'Princes' in the Bible
The princes of Zoan are complete fools;Pharaoh’s wisest advisers give stupid advice!How can you say to Pharaoh,“I am one of the wise,a student of eastern kings”?
The princes of Zoan have been fools;the princes of Memphis are deceived.Her tribal chieftains have led Egypt astray.
Prepare a table, and spread out a carpet!Eat and drink!Rise up, you princes, and oil the shields!
Who planned this against Tyre,the bestower of crowns,whose traders are princes,whose merchants are the honored ones of the earth?
For though his princes are at Zoanand his messengers reach as far as Hanes,
No nobles will be left to proclaim a king,and all her princes will come to nothing.
He reduces princes to nothingand makes judges of the earth irrational.
This is what the Lord,the Redeemer of Israel, his Holy One, saysto one who is despised,to one abhorred by people,to a servant of rulers:“Kings will see and stand up,and princes will bow down,because of the Lord, who is faithful,the Holy One of Israel—and He has chosen you.”