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Isaiah 47:12

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Keep using your magic powers and your charms as you have always done. Perhaps—just perhaps— you will frighten somebody!

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Since the time I was young, enemies have often attacked! Let everyone in Israel say:

Then the king called in the wise men and the magicians, who used their secret powers to do the same thing—

But the magicians used their secret powers to do the same thing.

The magicians were suffering so much from the sores, that they could not even come to Moses.

“Egypt will be discouraged when I confuse their plans. They will try to get advice from their idols, from the spirits of the dead, and from fortune-tellers.

I make liars of false prophets and fools of fortune-tellers. I take human wisdom and turn it into nonsense.

Someone may say to you, “Go to the fortune-tellers who make soft chirping sounds or ask the spirits of the dead. After all, a nation ought to be able to ask its own gods

Go and cry to the gods you made! There should be enough of them to save you, because Judah has as many gods as it has towns.

I, the LORD God, command you to take off your royal turban and your crown, because everything will be different. Those who had no power will be put in charge, and those who now rule will become nobodies.

It can't be done, except by the gods, and they don't live here on earth.”

So he called in his counsellors, advisers, magicians, and wise men,

Neither my advisers nor the men who talk with the spirits of the dead could read this writing or tell me what it means.

You prophets and fortune-tellers will all be disgraced, with no message from me.”

You were nothing more than a prostitute using your magical charms and witchcraft to attract and trap nations.

When the donkey saw the angel, it walked so close to one of the walls that Balaam's foot scraped against the wall. Balaam beat the donkey again.

No one stopped murdering or practising witchcraft or being immoral or stealing.




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