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 art wearied - (Isaiah 57:10; Exodus 24:12.)
Astrologers (Kethibh, hobªreew; Qeri', hobªreey (H1895)) - literally, those who form combinations of the heavens; who watch conjunctions and oppositions of the stars. 'Casters of the configurations of the sky' (Horsley). Gesenius explains it, the dividers of the heavens. In casting a nativity, they observed four signs-the horoscope, or sign which arose at the time one was born; the mid-heaven; the sign opposite the horoscope toward the west; and the hypogee.
Let ... the monthly prognosticators ... save thee from (these things) that shall come upon thee - those who at each new moon profess to tell thereby what is about to happen. Maurer joins, not as the English version, 'Let them that give knowledge concerning the months (margin) save thee from those things that shall come upon thee; but, 'They that at new moons make known part of the things that shall come upon thee, let them (also) save thee (from them).' If they can foretell calamities, they ought also to be able to save from them; because both are the work of God.