11 The princes of aZoan are merely ignorant fools;
The counsel of Pharaoh’s wisest counselors has become senseless.
How can you men say to Pharaoh,
“I am a son of the bwise, a son of the kings of old”?
12 Well then, where are your wise men?
Please let them tell you,
And let them understand what Yahweh of hosts
Has acounseled against Egypt.
13 The princes of Zoan have acted as ignorant fools,
The princes of aMemphis are deluded;
Those who are the bcornerstone of her tribes
Have led Egypt astray.
14 Yahweh has mixed within her a spirit of adistortion;
bThey have led Egypt astray in all that it does,
As a cdrunken man strays into his vomit.
15 There will be no work for Egypt
aWhich its head or tail, its palm branch or bulrush, may do.