Yesaya 47:13-14

47:13 You are tired out from listening to so much advice. ¹ 

Let them take their stand –

the ones who see omens in the sky,

who gaze at the stars,

who make monthly predictions –

let them rescue you from the disaster that is about to overtake you! ² 

47:14 Look, they are like straw,

which the fire burns up;

they cannot rescue themselves

from the heat ³  of the flames.

There are no coals to warm them,

no firelight to enjoy. ⁴ 

[47:13]  ¹ tn Heb “you are tired because of the abundance of your advice.”

[47:13]  ² tn Heb “let them stand and rescue you – the ones who see omens in the sky, who gaze at the stars, who make known by months – from those things which are coming upon you.”

[47:14]  ³ tn Heb “hand,” here a metaphor for the strength or power of the flames.

[47:14]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew text reads literally, “there is no coal [for?] their food, light to sit before it.” Some emend לַחְמָם (lakhmam, “their food”) to לְחֻמָּם (lÿkhummam, “to warm them”; see HALOT 328 s.v. חמם). This statement may allude to Isa 44:16, where idolaters are depicted warming themselves over a fire made from wood, part of which was used to form idols. The fire of divine judgment will be no such campfire; its flames will devour and destroy.