Isaiah 47:13-14

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[13] 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. [14] Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: it shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before.

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Babylon was the imperial capital on the Euphrates in Mesopotamia, and Chaldea referred to the surrounding southern Babylonian region and its ruling people. Isaiah portrays this powerful center of pagan wisdom and astrology as unable to save itself when God’s judgment comes.

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Isaiah 47:13-14 mentions Babylon and Chaldea.

Photo of Babylon — Babylon · Radomir Vrbovsky

Photo of Chaldea — Chaldea · M.Lubinski from Iraq,USA.