¹² Where then are your ^(A)wise men?
    Let them tell you
    that they might know what the Lord of hosts has purposed against Egypt.

¹⁴ The Lord has mingled within her ^(A)a spirit of confusion,
and they will make Egypt stagger in all its deeds,
    ^(B)as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
¹⁵ And there will be nothing for Egypt
    that ^(C)head or tail, palm branch or reed, may do.