Isaiah 47:12-15
Christian Standard Bible
12 So take your stand with your spells
and your many sorceries,
which you have wearied yourself with from your youth.
Perhaps you will be able to succeed;
perhaps you will inspire terror!
13 You are worn out with your many consultations.
So let the astrologers stand and save you—
those who observe the stars,(A)
those who predict monthly
what will happen to you.
14 Look, they are like stubble;(B)
fire burns them.(C)
They cannot rescue themselves
from the power of the flame.
This is not a coal for warming themselves,
or a fire to sit beside!
15 This is what they are to you—
those who have wearied you
and have traded with you from your youth—
each wanders on his own way;
no one can save you.
Isaiah 47:12-15
New American Standard Bible
12 “Persist now in your (A)spells
And in your many sorceries
With which you have labored from your youth;
Perhaps you will be able to benefit,
Perhaps you may cause trembling.
13 You are (B)wearied with your many counsels;
Let now the (C)astrologers,
Those who prophesy by the stars,
Those who predict by the new moons,
Stand up and (D)save you from what will come upon you.
14 Behold, they have become (E)like stubble,
(F)Fire burns them;
They cannot save themselves from the power of the flame;
There will be (G)no coal to warm by
Nor a fire to sit before!
15 So have those become to you with whom you have labored,
Those who have (H)done business with you from your youth;
Each has wandered in his own [a]way;
There is (I)no one to save you.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 47:15 Lit side, region
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