The counsel of Zoan fails

11Surely the princes of Zoan are fools; the wise counselors of Pharaoh give foolish counsel. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am a son of wise men, a son of ancient kings”?

12Where, then, are your wise men? Let them tell you, please; let them know what Yahweh of Armies has purposed against Egypt.

13The princes of Zoan have become foolish; the princes of Noph are deceived. They have led Egypt astray, they who are the cornerstone of her tribes.

14Yahweh has mixed within her a spirit of confusion, and they have led Egypt astray in all its work, as a drunkard staggers in his vomit.

15And there will be no work for Egypt that head or tail, palm branch or reed, can do.

16In that day Egypt will be like women, trembling and afraid because of the waving of the hand of Yahweh of Armies, which he waves against it.

17And the land of Judah will become a terror to Egypt; everyone to whom it is mentioned will fear because of the plan of Yahweh of Armies that he is planning against it.