Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 47:13

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13. wearied —(compare Isaiah 57:10 ; Ezekiel 24:12 ). astrologers —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 towards the west; and the hypogee. monthly prognosticators —those who at each new moon profess to tell thereby what is about to happen. Join, not as English Version, "save . . . from those things, " c. but, "They that at new moons make known from (by means of) them the things that shall come upon thee" [MAURER]. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-14" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

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절 (explains)

bible-text/isa-47-13

Source

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