Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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," etc.; but, "They that at new moons make known from (by means of) them the things that shall come upon thee" [MAURER].
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 47:13:
Isaiah 47:15
Jeremiah 50:35-37
Ezekiel 24:12
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