Isaiah 19:11

Webster's Bible (1833)

The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how do you say to Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

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  • Num 13:22 : 22 They went up by the South, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
  • 1 Kgs 4:30 : 30 Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
  • Ps 78:43 : 43 How he set his signs in Egypt, His wonders in the field of Zoan,
  • Isa 30:4 : 4 For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors are come to Hanes.
  • Acts 7:22 : 22 Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was mighty in his words and works.
  • Gen 41:38-39 : 38 Pharaoh said to his servants, "Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?" 39 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Because God has shown you all of this, there is none so discreet and wise as you.
  • Ps 78:12 : 12 He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
  • 1 Cor 1:19-20 : 19 For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing." 20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn't God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
  • Isa 44:25 : 25 who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;
  • Jer 10:14 : 14 Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
  • Jer 10:21 : 21 For the shepherds are become brutish, and have not inquired of Yahweh: therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered.
  • Jer 49:7 : 7 Of Edom. Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?
  • Ezek 7:26 : 26 Mischief shall come on mischief, and rumor shall be on rumor; and they shall seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.
  • Ezek 30:14 : 14 I will make Pathros desolate, and will set a fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments on No.
  • Ps 92:6 : 6 A senseless man doesn't know, Neither does a fool understand this:
  • Prov 30:2 : 2 "Surely I am the most ignorant man, And don't have a man's understanding.
  • Isa 19:3 : 3 The spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst of it; and I will destroy the counsel of it: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to those who have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
  • Isa 19:13 : 13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Memphis are deceived; they have caused Egypt to go astray, who are the corner-stone of her tribes.
  • Isa 29:14 : 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.
  • Job 5:12-13 : 12 He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can't perform their enterprise. 13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness; The counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
  • Job 12:17 : 17 He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.
  • Ps 33:10 : 10 Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.
  • Ps 73:22 : 22 I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

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  • Isa 19:12-14
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    12Where then are your wise men? and let them tell you now; and let them know what Yahweh of Hosts has purposed concerning Egypt.

    13The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Memphis are deceived; they have caused Egypt to go astray, who are the corner-stone of her tribes.

    14Yahweh has mixed a spirit of perverseness in the midst of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in every work of it, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.

  • 2Son of man, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude: Whom are you like in your greatness?

  • 19Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;

  • 10The pillars [of Egypt] shall be broken in pieces; all those who work for hire [shall be] grieved in soul.

  • 8Consider, you senseless among the people; You fools, when will you be wise?

  • Isa 30:2-4
    3 verses
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    2that set out to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt!

    3Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.

    4For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors are come to Hanes.

  • 22You shall tell Pharaoh, 'Thus says Yahweh, Israel is my son, my firstborn,

  • 39Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Because God has shown you all of this, there is none so discreet and wise as you.

  • 2Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and tell him, You were likened to a young lion of the nations: yet are you as a monster in the seas; and you did break forth with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers.

  • Ezek 29:2-3
    2 verses
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    2Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt;

    3speak, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lies in the midst of his rivers, that has said, My river is my own, and I have made it for myself.

  • 17He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.

  • 22For my people are foolish, they don't know me; they are foolish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

  • 33Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt.

  • 8But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.

  • 13Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn't know how to receive admonition any more.

  • 9The wise men are disappointed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected the word of Yahweh; and what manner of wisdom is in them?

  • 18To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shall you be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth: you shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord Yahweh.

  • 9Who sent signs and wonders into the midst of you, Egypt, On Pharaoh, and on all his servants;

  • 10Delicate living is not appropriate for a fool, Much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

  • 7Pharaoh's servants said to him, "How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve Yahweh, their God. Don't you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?"

  • 10Now therefore be wise, you kings. Be instructed, you judges of the earth.

  • 9He said to his people, "Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.

  • 19Thus will I execute judgments on Egypt; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.

  • 6Do you thus requite Yahweh, Foolish people and unwise? Isn't he your father who has bought you? He has made you, and established you.

  • 8For he says, Aren't my princes all of them kings?

  • 4I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts.

  • 5Answer a fool according to his folly, Lest he be wise in his own eyes.

  • 16The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of your head.

  • 22To discipline his princes at his pleasure, And to teach his elders wisdom.

  • 6All the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am Yahweh, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.

  • 4Then I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish; for they don't know the way of Yahweh, nor the law of their God:

  • 43How he set his signs in Egypt, His wonders in the field of Zoan,

  • 24The crown of the wise is their riches, But the folly of fools crowns them with folly.

  • 7Arrogant speech isn't fitting for a fool, Much less do lying lips fit a prince.

  • 8The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, But the folly of fools is deceit.

  • 11A fool vents all of his anger, But a wise man brings himself under control.