Isaiah 19:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹¹ Clearly the princes of Zoan are foolish; the wise counselors of Pharaoh give stupid counsel. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am one of the sages, a descendant of ancient kings”?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ The princes of Zoan [ancient capital of the Pharaohs] are utterly foolish; the counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become witless (stupid). How can you say to Pharaoh, I am a son of the wise, a son of ancient kings?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ 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?

Common English Bible

¹¹ The officials of Tanis are fools; the wisest of Pharaoh’s counselors give stupid advice. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I’m a wise person, one of the ancient kings”?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ The leaders of Tanis are foolish. The wise counselors of Pharaoh have given foolish counsel. How can you say to Pharaoh: "I am the son of wisemen, the son of the kings of antiquity?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ The princes of Tanis are become fools, the wise counsellors of Pharao have given foolish counsel. How will you say to Pharao: I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

Isaiah 19:11 Cross References

1 Kings 4:30

so that Solomon’s wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the people of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt.

1 Kings 5:10

So Hiram supplied Solomon’s every need for timber of cedar and cypress.

Job 12:17

He leads counselors away stripped and makes fools of judges.

Psalm 33:10

The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; he frustrates the plans of the peoples.

Psalm 73:22

I was stupid and ignorant; I was like a brute beast toward you.

Psalm 78:12

In the sight of their ancestors he worked marvels in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zoan.

Psalm 78:43

when he displayed his signs in Egypt and his miracles in the fields of Zoan.

Psalm 92:6

The dullard cannot know; the stupid cannot understand this:

Exodus 8:14

And they gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank.

Exodus 8:4

The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials.’ ”

Proverbs 30:2

Surely I am too stupid to be human; I do not have human understanding.

Isaiah 19:13

The princes of Zoan have become fools, and the princes of Memphis are deluded; those who are the cornerstones of its tribes have led Egypt astray.

Isaiah 19:3

the spirit of the Egyptians within them will be emptied out, and I will confound their plans; they will consult the idols and the spirits of the dead and the ghosts and the familiar spirits;

Isaiah 29:14

so I will again do amazing things with this people, shocking and amazing. The wisdom of their wise shall perish, and the discernment of the discerning shall be hidden.

Isaiah 30:4

For though his officials are at Zoan and his envoys reach Hanes,

Isaiah 44:25

who frustrates the omens of soothsayers and makes fools of diviners; who turns back the wise and makes their knowledge foolish;

Jeremiah 10:14

Everyone is stupid and without knowledge; goldsmiths are all put to shame by their idols, for their images are false, and there is no breath in them.

Jeremiah 10:21

For the shepherds are stupid and do not inquire of the Lord; therefore they have not prospered, and all their flock is scattered.

Jeremiah 46:17

Give Pharaoh, king of Egypt, the name “Braggart who missed his chance.”

Jeremiah 49:7

Concerning Edom. Thus says the Lord of hosts: Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?

Jeremiah 8:9

The wise shall be put to shame; they shall be dismayed and taken; since they have rejected the word of the Lord, what wisdom is in them?

Ezekiel 28:17

Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I exposed you before kings, to feast their eyes on you.

Ezekiel 30:14

I will make Pathros a desolation and will set fire to Zoan and will execute acts of judgment on Thebes.

Ezekiel 7:26

Disaster comes upon disaster; rumor follows rumor; they shall keep seeking a vision from the prophet; instruction shall perish from the priest and counsel from the elders.

Obadiah 1:7

All your allies have deceived you; they have driven you to the border; your confederates have prevailed against you; those who ate your food have set a trap for you— there is no understanding.

Obadiah 1:8

On that day, says the Lord, I will destroy the wise out of Edom and understanding out of Mount Esau.

Numbers 13:22

They went up into the Negeb and came to Hebron, and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the Anakites, were there. (Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

Acts 7:22

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