⁴¹ “‘Look, you scoffers,
    wonder and perish,
for I am going to do something in your days
    that you would never believe,
    even if someone told you.’^[a]”^(A)

⁹ “In that day,” declares the Lord,
    “the king and the officials will lose heart,^(A)
the priests will be horrified,
    and the prophets will be appalled.”^(B)

¹⁹ See, I am doing a new thing!^(A)
    Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness^(B)
    and streams in the wasteland.^(C)

¹¹ The officials of Zoan^(A) are nothing but fools;
    the wise counselors^(B) of Pharaoh give senseless advice.^(C)
How can you say to Pharaoh,
    “I am one of the wise men,^(D)
    a disciple of the ancient kings”?

¹² Where are your wise men^(E) now?
    Let them show you and make known
what the Lord Almighty
    has planned^(F) against Egypt.
¹³ The officials of Zoan^(G) have become fools,
    the leaders of Memphis^(H) are deceived;
the cornerstones^(I) of her peoples
    have led Egypt astray.
¹⁴ The Lord has poured into them
    a spirit of dizziness;^(J)
they make Egypt stagger in all that she does,
    as a drunkard staggers^(K) around in his vomit.
¹⁵ There is nothing Egypt can do—
    head or tail, palm branch or reed.^(L)