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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.

12 “Keep on, then, with your magic spells
    and with your many sorceries,(A)
    which you have labored at since childhood.
Perhaps you will succeed,
    perhaps you will cause terror.

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