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12 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.[a]
13 You struggle with your many consultations;[b]
    let them stand, now, and save you—
those who see the stars, divide the celestial sphere,[c]
    who inform by new moons—
        from those things that are coming upon you.
14 Look! They are like stubble;
    the fire burns them completely.
        They cannot deliver themselves[d] from the power[e] of the flame;
there is no coal for warming oneself,[f]
    no fire before which to sit.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 47:12 Literally “terrify”
  2. Isaiah 47:13 Or “advice”
  3. Isaiah 47:13 Literally “heavens,” that is, for astrology
  4. Isaiah 47:14 Literally “their lives”
  5. Isaiah 47:14 Literally “hand”
  6. Isaiah 47:14 Literally “to grow warm”

12 “Keep on, then, with your magic spells
    and with your many sorceries,(A)
    which you have labored at since childhood.
Perhaps you will succeed,
    perhaps you will cause terror.
13 All the counsel you have received has only worn you out!(B)
    Let your astrologers(C) come forward,
those stargazers who make predictions month by month,
    let them save(D) you from what is coming upon you.
14 Surely they are like stubble;(E)
    the fire(F) will burn them up.
They cannot even save themselves
    from the power of the flame.(G)
These are not coals for warmth;
    this is not a fire to sit by.

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