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Isaiah 47:13

Tree of Life Version

You are weary of your consultations. So many! So let the astrologers, star-gazers, predicting by new moons, stand up and save you from what will come upon you.

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causing the omens of boasters to fail, making fools of diviners, turning wise men backward and making their knowledge foolish,

So much have they become to you, with whom you have toiled, trafficking with you from your youth, each wandering about his own way. No one will save you!

These two things will come upon you in a moment, in one day— loss of children and widowhood— they will come upon you in full measure in spite of your many sorceries and your many spells.

You wearied of the length of your way, yet you did not say, “It is hopeless!” You found renewed strength, so you did not weaken.

When they say to you: “Consult the mediums and necromancers who chirp and mutter,” shouldn’t a people seek their God? Should a people consult the dead on behalf of the living?

Thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot: “Babylon’s thick wall will be totally razed and her high gates burned with fire. So the peoples are toiling for nothing, and nations weary themselves for fire.”

Then you will say: ‘Thus will Babylon sink, and not rise again, because of the calamity that I will bring on her. So they will weary themselves.’” Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

It has wearied toil, yet its thick rust will not come out of it. Into the fire with its corrosion!

On that very night King Belshazzar of the Chaldeans was slain.

Behold, is it not from Adonai-Tzva’ot that peoples toil to fuel a fire, and nations exhaust themselves for emptiness?




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