⁷ The seers will be ashamed^(A)
    and the diviners disgraced.^(B)
They will all cover^(C) their faces^(D)
    because there is no answer from God.^(E)”

²⁵ who foils^(A) the signs of false prophets
    and makes fools of diviners,^(B)
who overthrows the learning of the wise^(C)
    and turns it into nonsense,^(D)

¹¹ “The days are coming,”^(A) declares the Sovereign Lord,
    “when I will send a famine through the land—
not a famine of food or a thirst for water,
    but a famine^(B) of hearing the words of the Lord.^(C)

¹² “Keep on, then, with your magic spells
    and with your many sorceries,^(A)
    which you have labored at since childhood.
Perhaps you will succeed,
    perhaps you will cause terror.
¹³ All the counsel you have received has only worn you out!^(B)
    Let your astrologers^(C) come forward,
those stargazers who make predictions month by month,
    let them save^(D) you from what is coming upon you.
¹⁴ Surely they are like stubble;^(E)
    the fire^(F) will burn them up.
They cannot even save themselves
    from the power of the flame.^(G)
These are not coals for warmth;
    this is not a fire to sit by.