Isaiah 19:11

Oracle Of Judgment On Egypt

¹⁰ Egypt’s weavers will be dejected;
all her wage earners will be demoralized. ¹¹ 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”?
¹² Where then are your wise men?
Let them tell you and reveal
what the Lord of Hosts has planned against Egypt.

Wise Counsel

Wise Men

Pharaoh

Zoan

Numbers 13:22

They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were living. Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.

1 Kings 4:30

Solomon’s wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the people of the East, greater than all the wisdom of Egypt.

Psalm 78:43

when He performed His miraculous signs in Egypt
and His wonders in the region of Zoan.

Isaiah 30:4

For though his princes are at Zoan
and his messengers reach as far as Hanes,

Acts 7:22

So Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in his speech and actions.

Genesis 41:38-39

Then Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find anyone like this, a man who has God’s spirit in him?”

Psalm 78:12

He worked wonders in the sight of their fathers
in the land of Egypt, the region of Zoan.

Job 5:12-13

He frustrates the schemes of the crafty
so that they achieve no success.

Job 12:17

He leads counselors away barefoot
and makes judges go mad.

Psalm 33:10

The Lord frustrates the counsel of the nations;
He thwarts the plans of the peoples.

Psalm 73:22

I was stupid and didn’t understand;
I was an unthinking animal toward You.

Psalm 92:6

A stupid person does not know,
a fool does not understand this:

Proverbs 30:2

I am more stupid than any other man,
and I lack man’s ability to understand.

Isaiah 19:3

Egypt’s spirit will be disturbed within it,
and I will frustrate its plans.
Then they will seek idols, ghosts,
spirits of the dead, and spiritists.

Isaiah 19:13

The princes of Zoan have been fools;
the princes of Memphis are deceived.
Her tribal chieftains have led Egypt astray.

Isaiah 29:14

therefore I will again confound these people
with wonder after wonder.
The wisdom of their wise men will vanish,
and the understanding of the perceptive will be hidden.

Isaiah 44:25

who destroys the omens of the false prophets
and makes fools of diviners;
who confounds the wise
and makes their knowledge foolishness;

Jeremiah 10:14

Everyone is stupid and ignorant.
Every goldsmith is put to shame
by his carved image,
for his cast images are a lie;
there is no breath in them.

Jeremiah 10:21

For the shepherds are stupid:
they don’t seek the Lord.
Therefore they have not prospered,
and their whole flock is scattered.

Jeremiah 49:7

About Edom, this is what the Lord of Hosts says:

Is there no longer wisdom in Teman?
Has counsel perished from the prudent?
Has their wisdom rotted away?

Ezekiel 7:26

Disaster after disaster will come,
and there will be rumor after rumor.
Then they will seek a vision from a prophet,
but instruction will perish from the priests
and counsel from the elders.

Ezekiel 30:14

I will make Pathros desolate,
set fire to Zoan,
and execute judgments on Thebes.

1 Corinthians 1:19-20

For it is written:

I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
and I will set aside the understanding of the experts.