Isaiah 47:12
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What does Isaiah 47:12 mean?
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 utmost by
them: wherein thou hast laboured from thy
youth;
from the infancy of their state; as soon as their monarchy was
founded, or they became a people, they were given to these
practices, and were famous for them; and in which, no doubt, many
among them were brought up from their youth; and to gain the
knowledge of which they were at great labour and expense; and yet
it was all in vain, and to no purpose: if so be thou shall
be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail;
if skill in these things can be of any advantage to keep off the
impending calamity, and fortify against the powerful enemy that
will quickly surprise thee; try if by thine art thou canst
foresee the danger, and prevent it.
