Isaiah 47:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail. ”

Isaiah 47:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Stand now with thy enchantments - (See the notes at Isaiah 47:9 ). This is evidently sarcastic and ironical. It is a call on those who practiced the arts of magic to stand forth, and to show whe...
Isaiah 47:12 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Stand now with thy enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, in which thou hast (l) laboured from thy youth; if thou shalt be able to profit, if thou mayest prevail. (l) He derides thei...
Isaiah 47:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

A Taunt-Song of Triumph on the Fall of Babylon. Isaiah 47:1-7 . Babylon, erroneously personified as a virgin, as if never before captured, is bidden descend from the effeminate ease of her throne...
Isaiah 47:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Stand now with . Persist in. prevail . strike terror.
Isaiah 47:12 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

12. Stand now amidst thy divinations. The Prophet speaks as we are accustomed to speak to desperate men, on whom no warnings produce any good effect; “Do as thou art wont to do; in the end t...
Isaiah 47:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.
Isaiah 47:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail. (St...
Isaiah 47:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

An Ode on the Humiliation of Babylon 1-15. The coming calamity. The reason of Babylon's fall. Her helplessness to avert it.
Isaiah 47:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

If so be thou shalt be able... — The words come with a subtle tone of irony. Persevere in thy enchantments ... perchance thou wilt be able to profit, perchance thou wilt strike terror.
Isaiah 47:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 44:1-28 ; Isaiah 45:1-25 ; Isaiah 46:1-13 ; Isaiah 47:1-15 ; Isaiah 48:1-22 CHAPTER IX FOUR POINTS OF A TRUE RELIGION Isaiah 43:1-28 - Isaiah 48:1-22 WE have now surveyed the...
Isaiah 47:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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, mag...
Isaiah 47:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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 p...
Isaiah 47:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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, an...
Isaiah 47:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries ,.... An ironic expression, deriding those evil arts, bidding defiance to them, calling upon the masters of them to do thei...
Isaiah 47:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail. Ver. 12....
Isaiah 47:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 inf...
Isaiah 47:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Babylon Threatened. B. C. 708. 7 And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so tha...
Isaiah 47:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Stand: this word notes either, 1. Continuance. Persist or go on in these practices. Or, 2. Their gesture. For those that inquired of their gods by any of these superstitious practices used to s...
Isaiah 47:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

“Stand now with your enchantments, And with the multitude of your sorceries, In which you have laboured from your youth. If so be that you will be able to profit. If so be that you may prevail....
Isaiah 47:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

FALSE SECURITIES Isaiah 47:11-15 , 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....
Isaiah 47:12 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Isaiah 47:11-15 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 wh...
Isaiah 47:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Isaiah 47:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

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 Spr...
Isaiah 47:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Isaiah 47:1-23 A SONG OF TRIUMPH OVER THE FALL OF BABYLON . The song divides itself into four strophes, or stanzas—the first one of four verses ( Isaiah 47:1-23 );...
Isaiah 47:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Babylon's Vain Attempt to Avert the Threatened Destruction
Isaiah 47:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Thessalonians 2:9-12 ; Acts 13:8-12 ; Daniel 5:7-9 ; Exodus 7:11 ; Exodus 8:18 ; Exodus 8:19 ; Exodus 8:7 ; Exodus 9:11 ; Isaiah 19:3 ; Isaiah 44:25 ; Isaiah 47:10 ; Isaiah 47:9 ; Isai...
Isaiah 47:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Stand — Persist in these practices. Laboured — From the beginning of thy kingdom. For the Chaldeans in all ages were famous for the practice of these arts.

Isaiah 47:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 47:12 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Isaiah 47:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 47:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 47:12 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 47:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 47:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 47:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 47:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 47:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 47:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Isaiah 47:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 47:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 47:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 47:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 47:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 47:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 47:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 47:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 47:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Isaiah 47:12 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Isaiah 47:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 47:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaiah 47:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 47:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 47:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 47:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes