Isaiah 47:13 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers,b the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee. ”

Isaiah 47:13 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 wou...
Isaiah 47:13 - 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 47:13 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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...
Isaiah 47:13 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Isaiah 47:13 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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. From th...
Isaiah 47:13 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Thou art wearied, &c.— Thou art nauseated with the multitude of thy devices.
Isaiah 47:13 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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. (...
Isaiah 47:13 - 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 47:13 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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,...
Isaiah 47:13 - 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 47:13 - 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 47:13 - 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 47:13 - 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 47:13 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 goo...
Isaiah 47:13 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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....
Isaiah 47:13 - 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 47:13 - 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 47:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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 in...
Isaiah 47:13 - 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 47:13 - 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 47:13 - 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 47:13 - 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 47:13 - 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 47:13 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Babylon's Vain Attempt to Avert the Threatened Destruction
Isaiah 47:13 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Daniel 2:2-10 ; Daniel 5:15 ; Daniel 5:16 ; Daniel 5:30 ; Daniel 5:7 ; Daniel 5:8 ; Ezekiel 24:12 ; Habakkuk 2:13 ; Isaiah 44:25 ; Isaiah 57:10
Isaiah 47:13 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Wearied — Thou hast spent thy time and strength in going from one to another, and all to no purpose.

Isaiah 47:13 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 47:13 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 47:13 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 47:13 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 47:13 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 47:13 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 47:13 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 47:13 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 47:13 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 47:13 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 47:13 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Isaiah 47:13 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 47:13 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 47:13 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 47:13 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 47:13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 47:13 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 47:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 47:13 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Isaiah 47:13 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Isaiah 47:13 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 47:13 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaiah 47:13 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 47:13 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 47:13 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 47:13 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes