Isaiah 44:25

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

who frustrates the omens of liars, and makes fools of diviners; who turns wise men back, and makes their knowledge foolish;

Cross References

2 Samuel 15:31

And it was told David, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” And David said, “O Lord, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”

2 Samuel 16:23

Now in those days the counsel which Ahithophel gave was as if one consulted the oracle of God; so was all the counsel of Ahithophel esteemed, both by David and by Absalom.

2 Samuel 17:23

When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and went off home to his own city. And he set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.

1 Kings 22:37

So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria.

2 Chronicles 18:11

And all the prophets prophesied so, and said, “Go up to Ramoth-gilead and triumph; the Lord will give it into the hand of the king.”

2 Chronicles 18:34

And the battle grew hot that day, and the king of Israel propped himself up in his chariot facing the Syrians until evening; then at sunset he died.

Psalm 33:10

The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to naught; he frustrates the plans of the peoples.

Exodus 9:11

And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils were upon the magicians and upon all the Egyptians.

Isaiah 19:3

and the spirit of the Egyptians within them will be emptied out, and I will confound their plans; and they will consult the idols and the sorcerers, and the mediums and the wizards;

Isaiah 29:14

therefore, behold, I will again do marvelous things with this people, wonderful and marvelous; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the discernment of their discerning men shall be hid.”

Jeremiah 49:7

Concerning Edom. Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?

Jeremiah 50:36

A sword upon the diviners, that they may become fools! A sword upon her warriors, that they may be destroyed!

Jeremiah 51:57

I will make drunk her princes and her wise men, her governors, her commanders, and her warriors; they shall sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake, says the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.

Daniel 1:20

And in every matter of wisdom and understanding concerning which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters that were in all his kingdom.

Daniel 4:7

Then the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the astrologers came in; and I told them the dream, but they could not make known to me its interpretation.

Hosea 9:7

The days of punishment have come, the days of recompense have come; Israel shall know it. The prophet is a fool, the man of the spirit is mad, because of your great iniquity and great hatred.

Micah 3:7

the seers shall be disgraced, and the diviners put to shame; they shall all cover their lips, for there is no answer from God.

Zechariah 10:2

For the teraphim utter nonsense, and the diviners see lies; the dreamers tell false dreams, and give empty consolation. Therefore the people wander like sheep; they are afflicted for want of a shepherd.

Numbers 23:23

For there is no enchantment against Jacob, no divination against Israel; now it shall be said of Jacob and Israel, ‘What has God wrought!’