Isaiah 47:12-13

47:12 Persist ¹  in trusting ²  your amulets

and your many incantations,

which you have faithfully recited ³  since your youth!

Maybe you will be successful ⁴  –

maybe you will scare away disaster. ⁵ 

47:13 You are tired out from listening to so much advice. ⁶ 

Let them take their stand –

the ones who see omens in the sky,

who gaze at the stars,

who make monthly predictions –

let them rescue you from the disaster that is about to overtake you! ⁷ 

[47:12]  ¹ tn Heb “stand” (so KJV, ASV); NASB, NRSV “Stand fast.”

[47:12]  ² tn The word “trusting” is supplied in the translation for clarification. See v. 9.

[47:12]  ³ tn Heb “in that which you have toiled.”

[47:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “maybe you will be able to profit.”

[47:12]  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.

[47:13]  ⁶ tn Heb “you are tired because of the abundance of your advice.”

[47:13]  ⁷ tn Heb “let them stand and rescue you – the ones who see omens in the sky, who gaze at the stars, who make known by months – from those things which are coming upon you.”