All through the ages, people have believed in *astrology. Even modern newspapers and magazines regularly include ‘What the stars tell us’.
But the press often confuses readers. Different papers do not agree on ‘what the stars tell us’!
• God forbids the practice of *astrology (see Deuteronomy 4:19).
Verse Isaiah 47:13. _FROM_ THESE THINGS - "What are the events"] For מאשר _measher_, read מה אשר _mah asher_, so the _Septuagint_, "what is to happen to thee....
THOU ART WEARIED - Thou hast practiced so many arts, and practiced them so long, that thou art exhausted in them. The ‘counsels’ here referred to, are those which the astrologers and diviners would ta...
CHAPTER 47 A Description of the Fall of Babylon 1. _Babylon's degradation announced (Isaiah 47:1)_ 2. _Israel acknowledges the redeemer (Isaiah 47:4)_ 3. _Retribution for Babylon (Isaiah 47:5)_ 4. Th...
A TAUNT-SONG OF TRIUMPH ON THE FALL OF BABYLON. Isaiah 47:1. Babylon, erroneously personified as a virgin, as if never before captured, is bidden descend from the effeminate ease of her throne to the...
ASTROLOGERS. The scientists of Babylon were divided into three classes: writers of (1) charms to be placed on afflicted persons or houses; (2) formulae of incantations; (3) records of observations whi...
THOU ART WEARIED, &C.— _Thou art nauseated with the multitude of thy devices._...
b. CONQUERING THEIR GOVERNMENTS TEXT: Isaiah 47:1-15 1 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt...
Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee. (THOU...
47:13 heavens, (d-16) i.e. astrologers. stars, (e-21) i.e. prognosticators....
AN ODE ON THE HUMILIATION OF BABYLON 1-15. The coming calamity. The reason of Babylon's fall. Her helplessness to avert it....
See on Isaiah 47:9....
LET NOW THE ASTROLOGERS... — The three words describe two aspects of the same art — (1) the _dividers of the heavens,_ assigning stellar influences to the signs of the Zodiac; (2) the “star-gazers,” f...
נִלְאֵ֖ית בְּ רֹ֣ב עֲצָתָ֑יִךְ יַעַמְדוּ ־נָ֨א...
Isaiah 44:1; Isaiah 45:1; Isaiah 46:1; Isaiah 47:1; Isaiah 48:1...
THE PENALTY OF TRUSTING IN WICKEDNESS Isaiah 47:1-15 Babylon dwelt in careless security. She was given to pleasures, Isaiah 47:8; and said in her heart that her vast crowd of astrologers, magicians,...
The prophecy is now addressed to Babylon itself, and in language full of force and beauty describes its judgment. The description is fourfold. First, the degradation of the city is foretold. From a pr...
_Months, to tell which would prove lucky, Esther iii. 7._...
I include the whole of these verses in one reading, because the one great subject is the same. The enemies of God and of his Church carry with them a general feature, namely, everything of hatred, and...
13._Thou hast wearied thyself. _He now declares still more plainly what he had formerly expressed in somewhat obscure language; that all the schemes which Babylon had previously adopted would lead to...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 46, 47, AND 48. In Chapter s 46, 47, the application is made to Babylon and to her idols, but still as pleading for Israel as beloved of God; for governmental...
THOU ART WEARIED IN THE MULTITUDE OF THY COUNSELS,.... Taken of astrologers, diviners, and soothsayers; who were never able to give any satisfactory answers to questions put to them, or to give good a...
Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from [these things] that shall come upon thee. Ver. 13...
_Stand now with thine enchantments_ Persist in these practices. _Wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth_ From the beginning of thy kingdom. For the Chaldeans in all ages were famous, or rather infa...
Babylon's Vain Attempt to Avert the Threatened Destruction...
Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels, driven to despair by the fruitless quest for means and methods to meet the threatened punishment and to avert it. LET NOW THE ASTROLOGERS, those vers...
ASTROLOGERS: _ Heb._ viewers of the heavens THE MONTHLY PROGNOSTICATORS: _ Heb._ that give knowledge concerning the months...
7-15 Let us beware of acting and speaking as Babylon did; of trusting in tyranny and oppression; of boasting as to our abilities, relying on ourselves, and ascribing success to our own prudence and w...
THOU ART WEARIED; thou hast spent thy time and strength in going from one to another, in trying all manner of experiments, and all to no purpose. STAND UP, AND SAVE THEE to succour thee, or to inquire...
Isaiah 47:13 wearied H3811 (H8738) multitude H7230 counsels H6098 astrologers H1895 (H8802) H8064 stargazers H2374
Isaiah 47:11 I. Look at this picture of utter and most painful bewilderment. It is the necessary and inevitable result of sin. II. Hear the Divine challenge addressed to the false powers in which we...
CONTENTS: Judgment pronounced upon Babylon. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Those who abuse their honor or power provoke God to deprive them of it utterly and to make them sit in dust. While God often...
Isaiah 47:2. _Take the millstones and grind meal._ Prepare the weekly loaf, as was anciently the custom, a work which the servants performed with handmills. Isaiah 47:4. _Our Redeemer, the Lord of hos...
_Therefore shall evil come upon thee_ SUDDEN DESTRUCTION The predicted calamity is represented as a great storm, which suddenly arises in eastern countries, and blows with such violence as to Spread...
A CALL TO THE UNRIGHTEOUS (_Fourth Sunday in Advent._) Isaiah 46:12. _Hearken unto Me, ye stout-hearted, &c._ Referred at first to local and national circumstances, but addressed to the men of every...
FALSE SECURITIES Isaiah 47:11, _Therefore shall evil come upon thee, &c._ I. _Look at this picture of utter and painful bewilderment_. This is the necessary and inevitable result of sin. 1. We have...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 47:1 A SONG OF TRIUMPH OVER THE FALL OF BABYLON. The song divides itself into four strophes, or stanzas—the first one of four verses ...
Now in chapter 47, God speaks of the judgment that is going to come against Babylon. Now this is before Babylon ever conquered them. But God has declared that Babylon shall conquer them, but because o...
Daniel 2:2; Daniel 5:15; Daniel 5:16; Daniel 5:30; Daniel 5:7;...
Wearied — Thou hast spent thy time and strength in going from one to another, and all to no purpose....