Isaiah 47:13

New American Bible - revised edition

You wore yourself out with so many consultations! Let the astrologers stand forth to save you, The stargazers who forecast at each new moon what would happen to you.

Cross References

Isaiah 44:25

I bring to nought the omens of babblers, make fools of diviners, Turn back the wise and make their knowledge foolish.

Isaiah 47:15

Thus do your wizards serve you with whom you have toiled from your youth; They wander their separate ways, with none to save you.

Isaiah 47:9

Both these things shall come to you suddenly, in a single day: Complete bereavement and widowhood shall come upon you Despite your many sorceries and the full power of your spells;

Isaiah 57:10

Though worn out with the length of your journey, you never said, “It is hopeless”; You found your strength revived, and so you did not weaken.

Isaiah 8:19

And when they say to you, “Inquire of ghosts and soothsayers who chirp and mutter; should not a people inquire of their gods, consulting the dead on behalf of the living,

Jeremiah 51:58

Thus says the Lord of hosts: The walls of spacious Babylon shall be leveled to the ground, its lofty gates destroyed by fire. The toil of the peoples is for nothing; the nations weary themselves for what the flames consume. The Prophecy Sent to Babylon.

Jeremiah 51:64

and say: Thus Babylon shall sink. It will never rise, because of the disaster I am bringing upon it.” Thus far the words of Jeremiah.

Ezekiel 24:12

The toil is exhausting, but the great filth will not come out— Filth, even with fire.

Daniel 5:30

That very night Belshazzar, the Chaldean king, was slain:

Habakkuk 2:13

Is this not from the Lord of hosts: peoples toil for what the flames consume, and nations grow weary for nothing!