Stand now among your spells, and with your many sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth. Perhaps you will be able to profit; perhaps you may cause quaking.
And the spirit of the Egyptians shall be empty in its midst; and I will swallow its counsel. And they shall seek to idols, and to the enchanters, and to the mediums, and to the spirit-knowers.
And when they say to you, Seek to the mediums, and to spirit-knowers who peep and mutter; should not a people seek to its God, than for the living to seek the ones who died?
But where are your gods that you have made for yourselves? Let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your evil; for according to the number of your cities are your gods, O Judah.
And the king said to call to the magicians, and to the conjurers, and to the sorcerers and to the Chaldeans, to declare to the king his dreams. And they came and stood before the king.
And now the wise men and the conjurers have been brought in before me, so that they might read this writing and interpret the meaning to me. But they were not able to interpret the meaning of the thing.
And the seers shall be ashamed, and those divining shall blush, all of them; yea, they shall cover over their mustache, for there is no answer from God.
because of the many of her fornications of the ones prostituting and well favored, the mistress of sorceries who sells nations by her doing of adulteries, and families by her sorceries.