Isaiah 47:12

Stand now with your enchantments, and with the abundance of your sorcery, which you have learned from your youth; if you can be profited.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.

In Context

11And destruction shall come upon you, and you shall not be aware; there shall be a pit, and you shall fall into it: and grief shall come upon you, and you shall not be able to be + 47:11 Or, pure. clear; and destruction shall come suddenly upon you, and you shall not know.

13You are wearied in your counsels. Let now the astrologers of the heaven stand and deliver you, let them that see the stars tell you what is about to come upon you.

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Cross References

Exodus 8:7And the charmers of the Egyptians also did likewise with their sorceries, and brought up the frogs on the land of Egypt.

Exodus 9:11And the sorcerers could not stand before Moses because of the sores, for the sores were on the sorcerers, and in all the land of Egypt.

Isaiah 8:19And if they should say to you, Seek + 8:19 Gr. ventriloquists. those who have in them a divining spirit, and them that speak out of the earth, them that speak vain words, who speak out of their belly: shall not a nation diligently seek to their God? why do they seek to the dead concerning the living?

Isaiah 44:25Who else will frustrate the tokens of + 44:25 Gr. ventriloquists those that have divining spirits, and prophecies + 44:25 See Heb. from the heart of man? turning the wise back, and making their counsel foolishness;

Jeremiah 2:28And where are your gods, which you made for yourself? will they arise and save in the time of your affliction? for according to the number of your cities were your gods, O Juda; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem they sacrificed to Baal.

Daniel 2:11For the question which the king asks is difficult, and there is no one else who shall answer it before the king, but the gods, whose dwelling is not with any flesh.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 47:8-15

Babylon Threatened. ( b. c. 708.) 7 And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it. 8 Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children: 9 But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come… Read the whole commentary →

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