Isaiah 47:12-14

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹² 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.
¹³ You are wearied with your many consultations;
    let those who study^[a] the heavens
stand up and save you,
    those who gaze at the stars,
and at each new moon predict
    what^[b] shall befall you.

¹⁴ See, they are like stubble,
    the fire consumes them;
they cannot deliver themselves
    from the power of the flame.
No coal for warming oneself is this,
    no fire to sit before!