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Isaiah 47:12

Stand now with thine enchantments, the various magical formulas employed, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast labored from thy youth, this having ever been a characteristic of Babylon, as far as its history goes back; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail! It is a bitterly sarcastic challenge: Apply all your magical arts; maybe they will help, they may even instill fear and terror in the heart of Jehovah!

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See also Isaiah 47:12 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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 th...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 47 A Description of the Fall of Babylon 1. _Babylon's degradation announced (Isaiah 47:1)_ 2. _Israel acknowledges the redeemer (Isaiah 47:4)_ 3. _Retribution for Babylon (Isaiah 47:5)_ 4. Th...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    A TAUNT-SONG OF TRIUMPH ON THE FALL OF BABYLON. Isaiah 47:1. Babylon, erroneously personified as a virgin, as if never before captured, is bidden descend from the effeminate ease of her throne to the...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    STAND NOW WITH. Persist in. PREVAIL. strike terror....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    b. CONQUERING THEIR GOVERNMENTS TEXT: Isaiah 47:1-15 1 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail. (STAND -...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    AN ODE ON THE HUMILIATION OF BABYLON 1-15. The coming calamity. The reason of Babylon's fall. Her helplessness to avert it....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    Stand.. with] i.e. persist in....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD PROMISES COMFORT TO HIS PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 40 TO 48 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 47 This short chapter is severe in the manner that it warns the proud *Bab...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    IF SO BE THOU SHALT BE ABLE... — The words come with a subtle tone of irony. _Persevere in thy enchantments_ ... _perchance thou wilt be able to profit, perchance thou wilt strike terror._...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    עִמְדִי ־נָ֤א בַ חֲבָרַ֨יִךְ֙ וּ בְ רֹ֣ב

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Isaiah 44:1; Isaiah 45:1; Isaiah 46:1; Isaiah 47:1; Isaiah 48:1...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE PENALTY OF TRUSTING IN WICKEDNESS Isaiah 47:1-15 Babylon dwelt in careless security. She was given to pleasures, Isaiah 47:8; and said in her heart that her vast crowd of astrologers, magicians,...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The prophecy is now addressed to Babylon itself, and in language full of force and beauty describes its judgment. The description is fourfold. First, the degradation of the city is foretold. From a pr...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Stand now with thy enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, in which thou hast (l) laboured from thy youth; if thou shalt be able to profit, if thou mayest prevail. (l) He derides their...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    CHAPTER XLVII....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I include the whole of these verses in one reading, because the one great subject is the same. The enemies of God and of his Church carry with them a general feature, namely, everything of hatred, and...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    12._Stand now amidst thy divinations. _The Prophet speaks as we are accustomed to speak to desperate men, on whom no warnings produce any good effect; “Do as thou art wont to do; in the end thou shalt...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 46, 47, AND 48. In Chapter s 46, 47, the application is made to Babylon and to her idols, but still as pleading for Israel as beloved of God; for governmental...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    STAND NOW WITH THINE ENCHANTMENTS, AND WITH THE MULTITUDE OF THY SORCERIES,.... An ironic expression, deriding those evil arts, bidding defiance to them, calling upon the masters of them to do their u...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail. Ver. 12. _S...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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 infa...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    7-15 Let us beware of acting and speaking as Babylon did; of trusting in tyranny and oppression; of boasting as to our abilities, relying on ourselves, and ascribing success to our own prudence and w...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    STAND: this word notes either, 1. Continuance. Persist or go on in these practices. Or, 2. Their gesture. For those that inquired of their gods by any of these superstitious practices used to stand;...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 47:12 Stand H5975 (H8798) enchantments H2267 multitude H7230 sorceries H3785 which H834 labored H3021 (H8804)

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    “Stand now with your enchantments, And with the multitude of your sorceries, In which you have laboured from your youth. If so be that you will be able to profit. If so be that you may prevail. Y...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 47:11 I. Look at this picture of utter and most painful bewilderment. It is the necessary and inevitable result of sin. II. Hear the Divine challenge addressed to the false powers in which we...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Judgment pronounced upon Babylon. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Those who abuse their honor or power provoke God to deprive them of it utterly and to make them sit in dust. While God often...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 47:2. _Take the millstones and grind meal._ Prepare the weekly loaf, as was anciently the custom, a work which the servants performed with handmills. Isaiah 47:4. _Our Redeemer, the Lord of hos...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Therefore shall evil come upon thee_ SUDDEN DESTRUCTION The predicted calamity is represented as a great storm, which suddenly arises in eastern countries, and blows with such violence as to Spread...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    A CALL TO THE UNRIGHTEOUS (_Fourth Sunday in Advent._) Isaiah 46:12. _Hearken unto Me, ye stout-hearted, &c._ Referred at first to local and national circumstances, but addressed to the men of every...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    FALSE SECURITIES Isaiah 47:11, _Therefore shall evil come upon thee, &c._ I. _Look at this picture of utter and painful bewilderment_. This is the necessary and inevitable result of sin. 1. We have...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ISAIAH 47:1 A SONG OF TRIUMPH OVER THE FALL OF BABYLON. The song divides itself into four strophes, or stanzas—the first one of four verses ...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now in chapter 47, God speaks of the judgment that is going to come against Babylon. Now this is before Babylon ever conquered them. But God has declared that Babylon shall conquer them, but because o...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Thessalonians 2:9; Acts 13:8; Daniel 5:7; Exodus 7:11; Exodus 8:18

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Stand — Persist in these practices. Laboured — From the beginning of thy kingdom. For the Chaldeans in all ages were famous for the practice of these arts....

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