9. All the people who make cloth from flax will be sad.Those who weave linen will lose hope.
10. Those who weave cloth will be broken.All those who work for money will be sad.
11. The officers of the city of Zoan are fools.The wise men who advise the king of Egypt give wrong advice.How can they say to him they are wise?How can they say they are from the old family of the kings?
12. Egypt, where are your wise men?Let them show youwhat the Lord of heaven’s armies has planned for Egypt.
13. The officers of Zoan have been fooled.The leaders of Memphis have believed false things.So the leaders of Egyptlead her the wrong way.
14. The Lord has made the leaders confused.They wander and lead Egypt in the wrong ways.They are like drunk people stumbling in their own vomit.