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12 Persist[a] in trusting[b] your amulets
and your many incantations,
which you have faithfully recited[c] since your youth!
Maybe you will be successful[d]
maybe you will scare away disaster.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 47:12 tn Heb “stand” (so KJV, ASV); NASB, NRSV “Stand fast.”
  2. Isaiah 47:12 tn The word “trusting” is supplied in the translation for clarification. See v. 9.
  3. Isaiah 47:12 tn Heb “in that which you have toiled.”
  4. Isaiah 47:12 tn Heb “maybe you will be able to profit.”
  5. Isaiah 47:12 tn Heb “maybe you will cause to tremble.” The object “disaster” is supplied in the translation for clarification. See the note at v. 9.