9. The workers in combed flax will be in despair,and the weavers of white cotton.
10. Those who are the pillars of the land will be crushed,and all who work for pay will be grieved.
11. The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish;the wisest counselors of Pharaoh give stupid counsel.How can you say to Pharaoh,“I am a son of the wise,a son of ancient kings”?
12. Where then are your wise men?Let them tell youthat they might know what the Lord of hosts has purposed against Egypt.
13. The princes of Zoan have become fools,and the princes of Memphis are deluded;those who are the cornerstones of her tribeshave made Egypt stagger.
14. The Lord has mingled within her a spirit of confusion,and they will make Egypt stagger in all its deeds, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
15. And there will be nothing for Egyptthat head or tail, palm branch or reed, may do.