Charles Ellicott Commentary Isaiah 30:4

"For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors are come to Hanes." — Isaiah 30:4 (ASV)

His princes were at Zoan ... — Better, are, in the vivid use of the historic present of prophecy. Zoan, the Tanis of the Greeks, was one of the oldest of Egyptian cities. Hanes, identified with the Greek Heracleopolis, as lying in the delta of the Nile, would be among the first Egyptian cities which the embassy would reach.