Isaiah 47:12

Persist in casting your spells and your many sorceries 1 which you have faithfully recited since your childhood; 1 perhaps you will be successful, perhaps you will scare away disaster. 1

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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

11Disaster will overcome you; you will not be able to drive it away with your incantations. 1 Destruction will fall on you; you will not be able to ward it off. 1 Calamity will strike you suddenly, before you know it. 1

13You are tired out with your many consultations; let those men stand up 1 and save you—those who chart the heavens and look at the stars, 1 those who declare the new moons—let them save you from what will happen to you. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 8:7But the magicians did the same with their magic; they brought up frogs over the land of Egypt.

Exodus 9:11The magicians could not resist Moses because of the blisters, because the blisters were on them and on all the other Egyptians.

Isaiah 8:19They will say to you, “Consult with the mediums and spiritists,” those who chirp and mutter incantations. But should a people not consult their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?

Isaiah 44:25I who frustrate the omens of the empty talkers and who disgrace those who read omens; 1 I who overturn the wisdom of the wise and make their advice foolish. 1

Jeremiah 2:28Yet where are the gods that you made for yourselves? Let them arise if they wish to save you in your time of troubles, 1 for your idols equal your cities in number, Judah! 1

Daniel 2:11What the king demands is difficult, and there is no one who can tell it to the king except the gods, and they do not live among humans.”

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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