Isaiah 47:13

You 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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Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.

In Context

12Persist 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

14See, they will become like stubble. The fire will burn them up. 1 They will not save themselves from the hand of the flame. 1 There are no coals to warm them and no fire for them to sit by! 1

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Cross References

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

Isaiah 57:10You were tired from your long journey, but you never said, “It is hopeless.” 1 You found life in your hand; therefore you did not weaken. 1

Ezekiel 24:12She has become weary because of toil, but her corrosion has not gone out of her by the fire.

Daniel 5:7The king shouted a command to bring in those who claimed to speak with the dead, wise men, and astrologers. The king said to those known for their wisdom in Babylon, “Whoever explains this writing and its meaning will be clothed with purple and will have a gold chain around his neck. He will have the authority of the third highest ruler in the kingdom.”

Daniel 5:30That night Belshazzar, the Babylonian king, was killed,

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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