Perplexed / At a loss / Confused / At one’s wits’ end

Unable to decide; confused or uncertain about what to do.

("For a nation is lost in counsel, and there is no understanding in them" - Deuteronomy 32:28; and also: "How have you been abandoned alone, lost in counsel and direction / Without the gracious one to restore the soul, and without the one to establish the path" - H.N. Bialik; "I saw you again with your hands full, and also: 'And in the grip of the fire on the roof / It will burn, the heart of the bird is broken. / Like one lost in counsel, it flies, / In a moment it returns'" - Saul Tchernichovsky; "Blessed is Magonza")

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