Isaiah 44:25
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44:25who frustrates the omens of the empty talkers44
and humiliates45 the omen readers,
who overturns the counsel of the wise men46
and makes their advice47 seem foolish,
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- 44 The Hebrew text has בַּדִּים (baddim), perhaps meaning “empty talkers” ( 95 III בַּד). In the four other occurrences of this word (Job 11:3; Isa 16:6; Jer 48:30; 50:36) the context does not make the meaning of the term very clear. Its primary point appears to be that the words spoken are meaningless or false. In light of its parallelism with “omen readers,” some have proposed an emendation to בָּרִים (barim, “seers”). The Mesopotamian baru-priests were divination specialists who played an important role in court life. See R. Wilson, Prophecy and Society in Ancient Israel, 93–98. Rather than supporting an emendation, J. N. Oswalt (Isaiah [], 2:, n. 79) suggests that Isaiah used בַּדִּים purposively as a derisive wordplay on the Akkadian word baru (in light of the close similarity of the d and r consonants).
- 45 Or “makes fools of” (, ); and both similar.
- 46 Heb “who turns back the wise” (so ); “overthrows the learning of the wise”; “The words of the wise I refute.”
- 47 Heb “their knowledge” (so , , , ).
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
who frustrates the signs of liars
and makes fools of diviners,
who turns wise men back
and makes their knowledge foolish,
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
who foils the signs of false prophets
and makes fools of diviners,
who overthrows the learning of the wise
and turns it into nonsense,
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
who destroys the omens of the false prophets
and makes fools of diviners;
who confounds the wise
and makes their knowledge foolishness;
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NLTNew Living Translation
I expose the false prophets as liars
and make fools of fortune-tellers.
I cause the wise to give bad advice,
thus proving them to be fools.
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
who frustrates the signs of oracle priests
and makes a fool of diviners,
who drives the wise men back
and makes their knowledge foolish,
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KJV 1900King James Version
That frustrateth the tokens of the liars,
And maketh diviners mad;
That turneth wise men backward,
And maketh their knowledge foolish;
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