Isaiah 47:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 47

¹²Stand 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.

Isaiah 47:12 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 13:8-12
But Elymas the sorcerer(for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith. …
Nahum 3:4
Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.
Isaiah 47:9-10
But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments. …
Jeremiah 2:28
But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.
Isaiah 8:19
And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?

Topics

Adultery Astrology Charmers and Charming Clairvoyance Divination Enchantment Exorcism Fortune Telling

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 7-15)

Babylon, now doomed to ruin, is here justly upbraided with her pride, luxury, and security, in the day of her prosperity, and the confidence she had in her own wisdom and forecast, and particularly in the prognostications and counsels of the astrologers. These things are mentioned both to justify God in bringing these judgments upon her and to mortify her, and put her to so much the greater shame,…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 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 (Is 55:2).