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Isaiah 47:12–13

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47:12Persist27 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

47:13You are tired out from listening to so much advice.32

Let them take their stand—

the ones who see omens in the sky,

who gaze at the stars,

who make monthly predictions—

let them rescue you from the disaster that is about to overtake you!33

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Footnotes

  1. 27 Heb “stand” (so , ); , “Stand fast.”
  2. 28 The word “trusting” is supplied in the translation for clarification. See v. 9.
  3. 29 Heb “in that which you have toiled.”
  4. 30 Heb “maybe you will be able to profit.”
  5. 31 Heb “maybe you will cause to tremble.” The object “disaster” is supplied in the translation for clarification. See the note at v. .
  6. 32 Heb “you are tired because of the abundance of your advice.”
  7. 33 Heb “let them stand and rescue you—the ones who see omens in the sky, who gaze at the stars, who make known by months—from those things which are coming upon you.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Stand fast in your enchantments

and your many sorceries,

with which you have labored from your youth;

perhaps you may be able to succeed;

perhaps you may inspire terror.

You are wearied with your many counsels;

let them stand forth and save you,

those who divide the heavens,

who gaze at the stars,

who at the new moons make known

what shall come upon you.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“Keep on, then, with your magic spells

and with your many sorceries,

which you have labored at since childhood.

Perhaps you will succeed,

perhaps you will cause terror.

All the counsel you have received has only worn you out!

Let your astrologers come forward,

those stargazers who make predictions month by month,

let them save you from what is coming upon you.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

So take your stand with your spells

and your many sorceries,

which you have wearied yourself with from your youth.

Perhaps you will be able to succeed;

perhaps you will inspire terror!

You are worn out with your many consultations.

So let the astrologers stand and save you—

those who observe the stars,

those who predict monthly

what will happen to you.

NLTNew Living Translation

“Now use your magical charms!

Use the spells you have worked at all these years!

Maybe they will do you some good.

Maybe they can make someone afraid of you.

All the advice you receive has made you tired.

Where are all your astrologers,

those stargazers who make predictions each month?

Let them stand up and save you from what the future holds.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Stand, now, in your enchantments,

and in your many sorceries with which you have labored from your youth.

Perhaps you may be able to benefit;

perhaps you may scare away.

You struggle with your many consultations;

let them stand, now, and save you—

those who see the stars, divide the celestial sphere,

who inform by new moons—

from those things that are coming upon you.

KJV 1900King 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.

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.