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Isaiah 2:6

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6For you have abandonedac your people,

the house of Jacob,

because they are full of divination from the East

and of fortune-tellersa like the Philistines.b

They are in leagueB with foreigners.

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Footnotes

  1. BOr They teem, or They partner; obscure

Cross references

  1. acDt 31:17; Ps 94:14; Is 1:4
  2. aLv 19:26; Dt 18:10–14; 2Kg 21:6; 2Ch 33:6; Jr 27:9; Mc 5:12
  3. bJdg 14:3; 1Sm 6:2; 2Kg 1:2–6

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

For you have rejected your people,

the house of Jacob,

because they are full of things from the east

and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines,

and they strike hands with the children of foreigners.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

You, Lord, have abandoned your people,

the descendants of Jacob.

They are full of superstitions from the East;

they practice divination like the Philistines

and embrace pagan customs.

NLTNew Living Translation

For the Lord has rejected his people,

the descendants of Jacob,

because they have filled their land with practices from the East

and with sorcerers, as the Philistines do.

They have made alliances with pagans.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

For you have forsaken your people, house of Jacob,

because they are full from the east,

and of soothsayers like the Philistines,

and they make alliances with the offspring of foreigners.

KJV 1900King James Version

Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob,

Because they be replenished from the east,

And are soothsayers like the Philistines,

And they please themselves in the children of strangers.