12 Stand now among thine enchanters, and in the multitude of thy soothsayers (with whom thou hast [a]wearied thyself from thy youth) if so be thou mayest have profit, or if so be thou mayest have strength.

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

14 Behold, they shall be as stubble: the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver their own lives from the power of the flame: there shall be no coals [b]to warm at, nor light to sit by.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 47:12 He derideth their vain confidence, that put their trust in anything but in God, condemning also such vain sciences, which serve to no use, but to delude the people, and to bring them from depending only on God.
  2. Isaiah 47:14 They shall utterly perish, and no part of them remain.

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