²⁴ He takes away the wisdom of the rulers of the earth, and sends them wandering in a waste where there is no way.

⁴⁰ He puts an end to the pride of kings, and sends them wandering in the waste lands where there is no way.

²⁰ He makes the words of responsible persons without effect, and takes away the good sense of the old;

⁴ You have kept their hearts from wisdom: for this cause you will not give them honour.

⁴ They were wandering in the waste places; they saw no way to a resting-place.

⁹ And he said, Go, and say to this people, You will go on hearing, but learning nothing; you will go on seeing, but without getting wiser.

¹⁰ Make the hearts of this people fat, and let their ears be stopped, and their eyes shut; for fear that they may see with their eyes, and be hearing with their ears, and their heart may become wise, and they may be turned to me and made well.

¹ The word about Egypt. See, the Lord is seated on a quick-moving cloud, and is coming to Egypt: and the false gods of Egypt will be troubled at his coming, and the heart of Egypt will be turned to water.

¹⁶ Let his heart be changed from that of a man, and the heart of a beast be given to him; and let seven times go by him.

³³ That very hour the order about Nebuchadnezzar was put into effect: and he was sent out from among men, and had grass for his food like the oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hair became long as eagles' feathers and his nails like those of birds.

¹¹ And Ephraim is like a foolish dove, without wisdom; they send out their cry to Egypt, they go to Assyria.