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12 “Stand now with your enchantments
    and with the multitude of your sorceries,
    in which you have labored from your youth,
as if you might profit,
    as if you might prevail.
13 You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels.
    Now let the astrologers, the stargazers, and the monthly prognosticators stand up and save you from the things that will happen to you.
14 Behold, they are like stubble.
    The fire will burn them.
    They won’t deliver themselves from the power of the flame.
It won’t be a coal to warm at
    or a fire to sit by.
15 The things that you labored in will be like this:
    those who have trafficked with you from your youth will each wander in his own way.
    There will be no one to save you.

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12 “Stand now with your enchantments
And the multitude of your sorceries,
In which you have labored from your youth—
Perhaps you will be able to profit,
Perhaps you will prevail.
13 (A)You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels;
Let now (B)the[a] astrologers, the stargazers,
And [b]the monthly prognosticators
Stand up and save you
From what shall come upon you.
14 Behold, they shall be (C)as stubble,
The fire shall (D)burn them;
They shall not deliver themselves
From the power of the flame;
It shall not be a coal to be warmed by,
Nor a fire to sit before!
15 Thus shall they be to you
With whom you have labored,
(E)Your merchants from your youth;
They shall wander each one to his [c]quarter.
No one shall save you.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 47:13 Lit. viewers of the heavens
  2. Isaiah 47:13 Lit. those giving knowledge for new moons
  3. Isaiah 47:15 own side or way