Isaiah 19:9-11

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁹The workers in flax will be in despair,
and the carders and those at the loom will grow pale.
¹⁰Its weavers will be dismayed,
and all who work for wages will be grieved.

¹¹The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish;
    the wise counsellors of Pharaoh give stupid counsel.
How can you say to Pharaoh,
    ‘I am one of the sages,
    a descendant of ancient kings’?

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