Isaiah 19:12 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 19:12

Where are your wise men now? Let them tell you and reveal what the LORD of Hosts has planned against Egypt.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Where then are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now; and let them know what Jehovah of hosts hath purposed concerning Egypt.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

“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.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אַיָּם֙	'ai.Yam	where [are]? they	H335 →
אֵפ֣וֹא	'e.Fo'	then	H645 →
חֲכָמֶ֔יךָ	cha.kha.Mei.kha	wise [people] your	H2450 →
וְיַגִּ֥ידוּ	ve.ya.Gi.du	so they may tell	H5046 →
נָ֖א	na'	please	H4994 →
לָ֑ךְ	Lakh	to you
וְיֵ֣דְע֔וּ	ve.Ye.de.'U	so they may know	H3045 →
מַה־	mah-	what?	H4100 →
יָּעַ֛ץ	ya.'Atz	has he planned	H3289 →
יְהוָ֥ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
צְבָא֖וֹת	tze.va.'ot	of hosts	H6635 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
מִצְרָֽיִם׃	mitz.Ra.yim	Egypt	H4714 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Corinthians 1:20
Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
leads to
- Romans 1:22
  Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools,
- Job 12:17
  He leads counselors away barefoot and makes fools of judges.
- 1 Corinthians 3:19
  For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness.”
- 1 Corinthians 1:19
  For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”
Through
Jeremiah 2:28
But where are the gods you made for yourselves? Let them rise up in your time of trouble and save you if they can; for your gods are as numerous as your cities, O…
leads to
- Deuteronomy 32:37
  He will say: “Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge,
- Jeremiah 11:13
  Your gods are indeed as numerous as your cities, O Judah; the altars of shame you have set up—the altars to burn incense to Baal—are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.’
- Isaiah 45:20
  Come, gather together, and draw near, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry idols of wood and pray to a god that cannot save.
- Judges 10:14
  Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them save you in your time of trouble.”