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Isaiah 19:12

Where then are your wise men? and let them tell you now if they know what Yahweh of hosts has purposed concerning Egypt.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Sorcery;   War;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Egypt;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Tirhakah;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - God, Names of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Isaiah, Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Egypt;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Wisdom;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
Well then, where are your wise men?Please let them tell you,And let them understand what Yahweh of hostsHas counseled against Egypt.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Well then, where are your wise men? Please let them tell you, And let them understand what the LORD of hosts Has purposed against Egypt.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Where are thy wise men? Let them tell thee yf they can, what the Lorde of hoastes hath deuised vpon Egypt.
Darby Translation
Where are they then, thy wise [men]? Let them now tell thee, and let them make known what Jehovah of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.
New King James Version
Where are they? Where are your wise men? Let them tell you now, And let them know what the LORD of hosts has purposed against Egypt.
Literal Translation
Where are your wise ones now? Yea, let them tell you now, that they may know what Jehovah of Hosts has planned against Egypt.
Easy-to-Read Version
Egypt, where are your wise men? They should learn what the Lord All-Powerful has planned for Egypt. They should be the ones to tell you what will happen.
World English Bible
Where then are your wise men? and let them tell you now; and let them know what Yahweh of Hosts has purposed concerning Egypt.
King James Version (1611)
Where are they? Where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know, what the Lord of hosts hath purposed vpon Egypt.
King James Version
Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the Lord of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I am come of ye olde regall Progeny. But where are now thy wyse me? Let them tel the & shewe the, what the LORDE of hoostes hath taken in honde agaynst Egypte.
Amplified Bible
Where then are your wise men? Please let them tell you, And let them understand what the LORD of hosts Has purposed against Egypt [if they can].
American Standard Version
Where then are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now; and let them know what Jehovah of hosts hath purposed concerning Egypt.
Bible in Basic English
Where, then, are your wise men? let them make clear to you, let them give you knowledge of the purpose of the Lord of armies for Egypt.
Webster's Bible Translation
Where [are] they? where [are] thy wise [men]? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.
New English Translation
But where, oh where, are your wise men? Let them tell you, let them find out what the Lord who commands armies has planned for Egypt.
Contemporary English Version
Where are those wise men now? If they can, let them say what the Lord All-Powerful intends for Egypt.
Complete Jewish Bible
Where are they, then, those sages of yours? Let them tell you, so all can know what Adonai -Tzva'ot has planned against Egypt!
Geneva Bible (1587)
Where are nowe thy wise men, that they may tell thee, or may knowe what the Lorde of hostes hath determined against Egypt?
George Lamsa Translation
Where are your wise men? Let them tell you now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts has purposed against Egypt.
Hebrew Names Version
Where then are your wise men? and let them tell you now; and let them know what the LORD of Hosts has purposed concerning Mitzrayim.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Where are they, then, thy wise men? And let them tell thee now; and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed concerning Egypt.
New Living Translation
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.
New Life Bible
Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you. And let them understand what the Lord of All has planned against Egypt.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Where are now thy wise men? and let them declare to thee, and say, What has the Lord of hosts purposed upon Egypt?
English Revised Version
Where then are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now; and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed concerning Egypt.
Berean Standard Bible
Where are your wise men now? Let them tell you and reveal what the LORD of Hosts has planned against Egypt.
New Revised Standard
Where now are your sages? Let them tell you and make known what the Lord of hosts has planned against Egypt.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Where then are thy wise men? Pray let them tell thee! And let them know what Yahweh of hosts hath purposed on Egypt!
Douay-Rheims Bible
Where are now thy wise men? let them tell thee, and shew what the Lord of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.
Lexham English Bible
Where are your sages then? Now, let them tell you, and let them know what Yahweh of hosts has planned against Egypt.
English Standard Version
Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you that they might know what the Lord of hosts has purposed against Egypt.
New American Standard Bible
Well then, where are your wise men? Please let them tell you, And let them understand what the LORD of armies Has planned against Egypt.
New Century Version
Egypt, where are your wise men? Let them show you what the Lord All-Powerful has planned for Egypt.
Good News Translation
King of Egypt, where are those clever advisers of yours? Perhaps they can tell you what plans the Lord Almighty has for Egypt.
Christian Standard Bible®
Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you and reveal what the Lord of Hosts has planned against Egypt.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Where ben now thi wise men? Telle thei to thee, and schewe thei, what the Lord of oostis thouyte on Egipt.
Revised Standard Version
Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you and make known what the LORD of hosts has purposed against Egypt.
Young's Literal Translation
Where [are] they now, thy wise ones? Yea, let them tell to thee, I pray thee, And they know what Jehovah of Hosts hath counselled against Egypt!

Contextual Overview

1 The burden of Egypt. Look, Yahweh rides on a swift cloud, and comes to Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall tremble at his presence; and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it. 2 And I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbor; city against city, [and] kingdom against kingdom. 3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst of it; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to the spiritists, and to the wizards. 4 And I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, says the Lord, Yahweh of hosts. 5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and become dry. 6 And the rivers shall become foul; the streams of Egypt shall be diminished and dried up; the reeds and flags shall wither away. 7 The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and all the sown fields of the Nile, shall become dry, be driven away, and be no more. 8 And the fishers shall lament, and all those that cast angle into the Nile shall mourn, and those that spread nets on the waters shall languish. 9 Moreover those that work in combed flax shall be confounded, and the weavers shall grow pale. 10 And the weavers shall be broken in pieces; all those that work for wages [shall be] grieved in soul.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

where are thy: Isaiah 5:21, Isaiah 47:10-13, Judges 9:38, Jeremiah 2:28, 1 Corinthians 1:20

let them: Isaiah 40:13, Isaiah 40:14, Isaiah 41:22, Isaiah 41:23, Isaiah 44:7, Job 11:6, Job 11:7, Romans 11:33, Romans 11:34

Reciprocal: Genesis 3:22 - as one Exodus 7:11 - wise men Exodus 8:18 - they could 1 Kings 4:30 - the wisdom of Egypt Job 12:17 - General Isaiah 30:28 - to sift Jeremiah 4:9 - that the heart

Cross-References

Genesis 7:1
And Yahweh said to Noah, Come you and all your house into the ark; for you I have seen righteous before me in this generation.
Genesis 19:14
And Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who married his daughters, and said, Get up, go out of this place; for Yahweh will destroy the city. But he seemed to his sons-in-law as one that mocked.
Genesis 19:17
And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for your life; don't look behind you, neither stay in all the Plain; escape to the mountain, or else you will be consumed.
Genesis 19:22
Hurry, escape there; for I can't do anything until you have come there. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
Genesis 19:23
The sun was risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar.
Numbers 16:26
And he spoke to the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, or else you will be consumed in all their sins.
Jeremiah 32:39
and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for the good of them, and of their sons after them:
2 Peter 2:7
and delivered righteous Lot, very distressed by the sexual immorality of the wicked
2 Peter 2:9
the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment to the day of judgment;
Revelation 18:4
And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come forth, my people, out of her, that you have no fellowship with her sins, and that you do not receive of her plagues:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Where [are] they? where [are] thy wise [men]?.... The magicians and soothsayers, the diviners and astrologers, who pretended, by their magic art and skill in judicial astrology, to foretell things to come: this is an address to the king of Egypt, who had such persons about him, and encouraged them, by consulting them on occasion, and rewarding them:

and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the Lord of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt; or, "against it"; let them tell, if they can, and make known unto thee the purposes of God's heart, the things he has resolved upon, even the calamities and punishments he will shortly inflict upon the Egyptians, of which he has given notice by his prophets.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Where are they? - This whole verse is an appeal by the prophet to the king of Egypt respecting the counselors and soothsayers of his kingdom. The sense is, ‘a time of distress and danger is evidently coming upon Egypt. They pretend to be wise; and there is now occasion for all their wisdom, and opportunity to evince it. Let them show it. Let them declare what is coming upon the nation, and take proper measures to meet and remove it; and they will then demonstrate that it would be proper for Pharaoh to repose confidence in them.’ But if they could not do this, then he should not suffer himself to be deluded, and his kingdom ruined, by their counsels.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 19:12. "Let them come"] Here too a word seems to have been left out of the text. After חכמיך chochameycha, thy wise men, two MSS., one ancient, add יבאו yibu, let them come; which, if we consider the form and construction of the sentence, has very much the appearance of being genuine: otherwise the connective conjunction at the beginning of the next member is not only superfluous but embarrassing. See also the Version of the Septuagint, in which the same deficiency is manifest.

Let them tell thee now - "And let them declare"] For ידעו yidu, let them know, perhaps we ought to read יודיעו yodiu, let them make known. - Secker. The Septuagint and Vulgate favour this reading, ειπατωισαν, let them declare.


 
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