¹⁷ There they will exclaim,
    ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is only a loud noise;^(A)
    he has missed his opportunity.^(B)’

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)

⁹ The enemy boasted,
    ‘I will pursue,^(A) I will overtake them.
I will divide the spoils;^(B)
    I will gorge myself on them.
I will draw my sword
    and my hand will destroy them.’

“‘I am against you, Pharaoh^(A) king of Egypt,
    you great monster^(B) lying among your streams.
You say, “The Nile^(C) belongs to me;
    I made it for myself.”

²⁷ Their people, drained of power,
    are dismayed and put to shame.
They are like plants in the field,
    like tender green shoots,
like grass^(A) sprouting on the roof,^(B)
    scorched^[a] before it grows up.

²⁸ “But I know where you are
    and when you come and go^(C)
    and how you rage^(D) against me.
²⁹ Because you rage against me
    and because your insolence^(E) has reached my ears,
I will put my hook^(F) in your nose^(G)
    and my bit in your mouth,
and I will make you return
    by the way you came.^(H)