10. They will be in despair,and all the workers will be sick at heart.
11. What fools are the officials of Zoan!Their best counsel to the king of Egypt is stupid and wrong.Will they still boast to Pharaoh of their wisdom?Will they dare brag about all their wise ancestors?
12. Where are your wise counselors, Pharaoh?Let them tell you what God plans,what the lord of Heaven’s Armies is going to do to Egypt.
13. The officials of Zoan are fools,and the officials of Memphis are deluded.The leaders of the peoplehave led Egypt astray.
14. The lord has sent a spirit of foolishness on them,so all their suggestions are wrong.They cause Egypt to staggerlike a drunk in his vomit.
15. There is nothing Egypt can do.All are helpless—the head and the tail,the noble palm branch and the lowly reed.
16. In that day the Egyptians will be as weak as women. They will cower in fear beneath the upraised fist of the lord of Heaven’s Armies.
17. Just to speak the name of Israel will terrorize them, for the lord of Heaven’s Armies has laid out his plans against them.