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Isaiah 47:13

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You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels: let now the astrologers, the star-gazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save you from the things that shall come on you.

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Babylon was the great Mesopotamian city and capital of the Chaldean (Neo-Babylonian) empire in southern Mesopotamia, modern Iraq. Isaiah addresses its doomed reliance on astrologers and occult advisers, showing that its famed wisdom cannot avert God’s judgment.

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Isaiah 47:13 mentions Babylon and Chaldea.

Babylon · Radomir Vrbovsky
Chaldea · M.Lubinski from Iraq,USA.

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