Isaiah 47:13

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.

Wearied

Isaiah 57:10

Ezekiel 24:12

Habakkuk 2:13

Let now

Isaiah 44:25

Daniel 2:2

Daniel 5:7

General references

Daniel 2:2

Bible References

Wearied

Thou hast had trouble for the multitude of thine own ways, yet saidest thou never, "I will leave off." Thou thinkest to have life of thyself, and therefore thou believest not that thou art sick.

But it will not go off, there is so much of it: the rustiness must be burnt out.

Shall not the LORD of Hosts bring this to pass, that the laborers of the people shall be burnt with a great fire, and that the thing whereupon the people have wearied themselves, shall be lost?

Let now

I destroy the tokens of witches, and make the Soothsayers go wrong. As for the wise, I turn them backward, and make their cunning foolishness.

Then the king commanded to call together all the soothsayers, charmers, witches and Chaldeans, for to show the king his dream. So they came, and stood before the king.

Wherefore the king cried mightily, that they should bring him the charmers, Chaldeans, and the conjurers of devils. The king spake also to the wise men of Babylon, and said, "Whoso can read this writing, and show me the plain meaning thereof: shall be clothed with purple, have a chain of gold about his neck, and rule the third part of my kingdom."

General references

so that the sorcerers could not stand before Moses, by the reason of botches on the enchanters and upon all the Egyptians.

Turn not to them that work with spirits, neither regard them that observe dismal days, that ye be not defiled by them: for I am the LORD your God.

How shall I curse whom God curseth not? And how shall I defy whom the LORD defieth not?

Whoso is found alone, shall be shot through: And whoso gather together, shall be destroyed with the sword.

Then the king commanded to call together all the soothsayers, charmers, witches and Chaldeans, for to show the king his dream. So they came, and stood before the king.