Text -- Isaiah 47:12 (NET)

47:12 Persist in trusting your amulets and your many incantations, which you have faithfully recited since your youth! Maybe you will be successful– maybe you will scare away disaster.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Isa 47:12

¹ tn Heb “stand” (so KJV, ASV); NASB, NRSV “Stand fast.”

² tn The word “trusting” is supplied in the translation for clarification. See v. 9.

³ tn Heb “in that which you have toiled.”

⁴ tn Heb “maybe you will be able to profit.”

⁵ tn Heb “maybe you will cause to tremble.” The object “disaster” is supplied in the translation for clarification. See the note at v. 9.