9. Those who work with linen, combing and weaving fine textiles, will be confounded.
10. And its irrigated places will begin to fail, with all those who make pools to take fish.
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?"
12. Where are your wisemen now? Let them announce it to you, and let them reveal what the Lord of hosts intends for Egypt.
13. The leaders of Tanis have become foolish. The leaders of Memphis have decayed. They have deceived Egypt, the corner of its people.
14. The Lord has mixed a spirit of giddiness into its midst. And they have caused Egypt to err in all its works, like a drunken man who staggers and vomits.
15. And there will be no work for Egypt that would produce a head or a tail, one who bows down or one who refrains from bowing down.
16. In that day, Egypt will be like women, and they will be stupefied and fearful before the presence of the shaking hand of the Lord of hosts, the hand which he will move over them.