Isaiah 19:11 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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?

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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

And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt.

1 Kings 5:10

So Hirah gave Solomon timber of cedar and timber of fir according to all his desire.

Job 12:17

He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, And judges maketh he fools.

Psalm 33:10

The LORD bringeth the counsel of the nations to nought: He maketh the thoughts of the peoples to be of none effect.

Psalm 73:22

So brutish was I, and ignorant; I was as a beast before thee.

Psalm 78:12

Marvelous things did he in the sight of their fathers, In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

Psalm 78:43

How he set his signs in Egypt, And his wonders in the field of Zoan;

Psalm 92:6

A brutish man knoweth not; Neither doth a fool understand this:

Exodus 8:14

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

Exodus 8:4

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

Proverbs 30:2

Surely I am more brutish than any man, And have not the understanding of a man:

Isaiah 19:13

The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have caused Egypt to go astray, that are the corner stone of her tribes.

Isaiah 19:3

And the spirit of Egypt shall be made void in the midst of it; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek unto the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.

Isaiah 29:14

therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder: and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.

Isaiah 30:4

For his princes are at Zoan, and his ambassadors are come to Hanes.

Isaiah 44:25

that frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish:

Jeremiah 10:14

Every man is become brutish and is without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

Jeremiah 10:21

For the shepherds are become brutish, and have not inquired of the LORD: therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered.

Jeremiah 46:17

They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath let the appointed time pass by.

Jeremiah 49:7

Of Edom. Thus saith the LORD of hosts: Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?

Jeremiah 8:9

The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what manner of wisdom is in them?

Ezekiel 28:17

Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I have cast thee to the ground, I have laid thee before kings, that they may behold thee.

Ezekiel 30:14

And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set a fire in Zoan, and will execute judgements in No.

Ezekiel 7:26

Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; and they shall seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.

Obadiah 1:7

All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee on thy way, even to the border: the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, and prevailed against thee; they that eat thy bread lay a snare under thee: there is none understanding in him.

Obadiah 1:8

Shall I not in that day, saith the LORD, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau?

Numbers 13:22

And they went up by the South, and came unto Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

Acts 7:22

And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians; and he was mighty in his words and works.