Isaiah 47:12

47:12 Persist27 in trusting28 your amulets

and your many incantations,

which you have faithfully recited29 since your youth!

Maybe you will be successful30—

maybe you will scare away disaster.31

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27	tn Heb “stand” (so KJV, ASV); NASB, NRSV “Stand fast.”
28	tn The word “trusting” is supplied in the translation for clarification. See v. 9.
29	tn Heb “in that which you have toiled.”
30	tn Heb “maybe you will be able to profit.”
31	tn Heb “maybe you will cause to tremble.” The object “disaster” is supplied in the translation for clarification. See the note at v. 9.