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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 47:13

The weariness of self-service. "Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels." Babylon was trusting self, trying to find its own way out of calamities; and it was proving what weary, hopeless work that always is. Astrologer was the final resource of the despairing Babylonians. I. THE WEARINESS OF VARIETY . A vain searching for some new device. A restless dissatisfaction with everything. II. THE WEARINESS OF MULTIPLICITY . Bewildered with the many helpers, who yet... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 47:12

Stand now with thy enchantments - (See the notes at Isaiah 47:9). This is evidently sarcastic and ironical. It is a call on those who practiced the arts of magic to stand forth, and to show whether they were able to defend the city, and to save the nation.Wherein thou hast labored - Or in practicing which thou hast been diligently employed.From thy youth - From the very commencement of thy national existence. Babylon was always distinguished for these arts. Now was a time when their value was... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 47:13

Thou art wearied - Thou hast practiced so many arts, and practiced them so long, that thou art exhausted in them. The ‘counsels’ here referred to, are those which the astrologers and diviners would take in examining the prognostications, and the supposed indications of future events.Let now the astrologers - Call in now the aid of the various classes of diviners on whom thou hast relied to save thee from the impending calamity and ruin. The words rendered here ‘astrologers’ (שׁמים הברי hoberēy... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 47:12-15

Isaiah 47:12-15. Stand now with thine enchantments Persist in these practices. Wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth From the beginning of thy kingdom. For the Chaldeans in all ages were famous, or rather infamous, for the study and practice of these arts. Thou art wearied in thy counsels Thou hast spent thy time and strength in going from one to another, in trying all manner of experiments, and all to no purpose. Let now the astrologers, &c., stand up To succour thee, or to... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Isaiah 47:1-15

Judgment on Babylon (47:1-15)The great nation Babylon is likened to a beautiful and vain young lady who is now disgraced. She once lived in luxury, but now she is made to sit in the dirt, forced to work like a slave girl, stripped of her beautiful clothing and made to walk around naked (47:1-3). God’s judgment on Babylon brings freedom to Israel (4).Pride is the reason for Babylon’s downfall. God’s desire was to use Babylon to punish Israel, but Babylon has gone beyond the limits God set and... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 47:12

Stand now with = Persist in. prevail = strike terror. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 47:13

astrologers. The scientists of Babylon were divided into three classes: writers of (1) charms to be placed on afflicted persons or houses; (2) formulae of incantations; (3) records of observations which mixed up astronomy with astrology, and resulted, in the case of any two successive or concurrent events, in the conclusion that one was the cause of the other; and, the further conclusion was reached by reasoning from the "particular" to the "general". the monthly prognosticators = they who... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 47:12

"Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast labored from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail. Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels: let now the astrologers, the star-gazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from the things that shall come upon thee. Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame:... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 47:13

Isaiah 47:13. Thou art wearied, &c.— Thou art nauseated with the multitude of thy devices. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 47:12

12. Stand—forth: a scornful challenge to Babylon's magicians to show whether they can defend their city. laboured—The devil's service is a laborious yet fruitless one ( :-). read more