Isaiah 47:12

Context

47:12 Persist¹ in trusting² your amulets

and your many incantations,

which you have faithfully recited³ since your youth!

Maybe you will be successful⁴ –

maybe you will scare away disaster.⁵

Isaiah 37:4

Context
37:4 Perhaps the Lord your God will hear all these things the chief adviser has spoken on behalf of his master, the king of Assyria, who sent him to taunt the living God.⁶ When the Lord your God hears, perhaps he will punish him for the things he has said.⁷ So pray for this remnant that remains.’”⁸

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

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

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

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

[47:12] ⁵tn Heb “maybe you will cause to tremble.” The object “disaster” is supplied in the translation for clarification. See the note at v. 9.

[37:4] ⁶tn Heb “all the words of the chief adviser whom his master, the king of Assyria, sent to taunt the living God.”

[37:4] ⁷tn Heb “and rebuke the words which the Lord your God hears.”

[37:4] ⁸tn Heb “and lift up a prayer on behalf of the remnant that is found.”