Verse 12

Isaiah 47:12

New Living Translation

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12 “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.

Original Language Text

hebrew

עִמְדִי נָ֤א בַ/חֲבָרַ֨יִ/ךְ֙ וּ/בְ/רֹ֣ב כְּשָׁפַ֔יִ/ךְ בַּ/אֲשֶׁ֥ר יָגַ֖עַתְּ מִ/נְּעוּרָ֑יִ/ךְ אוּלַ֛י תּוּכְלִ֥י הוֹעִ֖יל אוּלַ֥י תַּעֲרֽוֹצִי

English Translation

Stand, please, with your companions and with the multitude of your spells that you have labored on since your youth; perhaps you can be of help, perhaps you can prevail.

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Chapter 47 Context

1 “Come down, virgin daughter of Babylon, and sit in the dust. For your days of sitting on a throne... Focus ↗

2 Take heavy millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, and strip off your robe. Expose yours... Focus ↗

3 You will be naked and burdened with shame. I will take vengeance against you without pity.” Focus ↗

4 Our Redeemer, whose name is the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, is the Holy One of Israel. Focus ↗

5 “O beautiful Babylon, sit now in darkness and silence. Never again will you be known as the queen... Focus ↗

6 For I was angry with my chosen people and punished them by letting them fall into your hands. ... Focus ↗

7 You said, ‘I will reign forever as queen of the world!’ You did not reflect on your actions or... Focus ↗

8 “Listen to this, you pleasure-loving kingdom, living at ease and feeling secure. You say, ‘I a... Focus ↗

9 Well, both these things will come upon you in a moment: widowhood and the loss of your children.<... Focus ↗

10 “You felt secure in your wickedness. ‘No one sees me,’ you said. But your ‘wisdom’ and ‘knowle... Focus ↗

11 So disaster will overtake you, and you won’t be able to charm it away. Calamity will fall upon... Focus ↗

12 “Now use your magical charms! Use the spells you have worked at all these years! Maybe they wi...

13 All the advice you receive has made you tired. Where are all your astrologers, those stargazer... Focus ↗

14 But they are like straw burning in a fire; they cannot save themselves from the flame. You wil... Focus ↗

15 And all your friends, those with whom you’ve done business since childhood, will go their own... Focus ↗

Verse Information

Book: Isaiah
Chapter: Chapter 47 (15 verses)
Version: New Living Translation

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