Isaiah 47:12-15
False wisdom cannot rescue from divine judgment.
12 “Stand now with your enchantments and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth, as if you might profit, as if you might prevail.
13 You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels. Now let the astrologers, the stargazers, and the monthly prognosticators, stand up and save you from the things that will happen to you.
14 Behold, they are like stubble. The fire will burn them. They won’t deliver themselves from the power of the flame. It won’t be a coal to warm at or a fire to sit by.
15 The things that you labored in will be like this: those who have trafficked with you from your youth will each wander in his own way. There will be no one to save you.
False wisdom cannot rescue from divine judgment.
To mock Babylon’s reliance on sorcery and astrology and to declare the complete failure of its supposed sources of wisdom and security.
Babylon was known for its extensive use of astrology, divination, and magical practices, which were central to its identity and governance.
Babylon Brought Down from Her Throne
The LORD brings proud Babylon down because no empire, wisdom system, or occult power can secure itself against the judgment of Israel’s Redeemer.