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Isaiah 47:13

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

You have worn yourself out, asking for advice from those who study the stars and tell the future month after month. Go and ask them how to be saved from what will happen.

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

These are the fortune-tellers you have done business with all your life. But they don't know where they are going, and they can't save you.

Your magic powers and charms will suddenly fail, then you will be a widow and lose your children.

Though you tired yourself out by running after idols, you refused to stop. Your desires were so strong that they kept you going.

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

The thick walls of that city will be torn down, and its huge gates burnt. Everything that nation worked so hard to gain will go up in smoke.

“This is how Babylon will sink when the LORD destroys it. Everyone in the city will die, and it won't have the strength to rise again.” Jeremiah's writing ends here.

I've tried everything else. Now the rust must be burnt away.

That same night, the king was killed.

But the LORD All-Powerful sends up in flames what nations and people work so hard to gain.




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