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Louis Segond
Ésaïe 44:25
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Qui dissipe les signes des menteurs, qui rends insens�s les devins; qui renverse l'esprit des sages, et qui fais que leur science devient une folie.
Qui dissipe les pr�sages des menteurs, et rends insens�s les devins; qui fais retourner les sages en arri�re, et change leur science en folie;
qui rends vains les signes des menteurs et qui trouble l'esprit des devins, qui fais retourner en arri�re les sages et qui fais de leur connaissance une folie;
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
frustrateth: Isaiah 47:12-14, 1 Kings 22:11, 1 Kings 22:12, 1 Kings 22:22-25, 1 Kings 22:37, 2 Chronicles 18:11, 2 Chronicles 18:34, Jeremiah 27:9, Jeremiah 27:10, Jeremiah 28:9-17, Jeremiah 50:36
maketh: Exodus 9:11, Daniel 1:20, Daniel 2:10-12, Daniel 4:7, Daniel 5:6-8
turneth: Isaiah 19:11-14, Isaiah 29:14, 2 Samuel 15:31, 2 Samuel 16:23, 2 Samuel 17:23, Job 5:12-14, Psalms 33:10, Jeremiah 49:7, Jeremiah 51:57, 1 Corinthians 1:20-27, 1 Corinthians 3:19, 1 Corinthians 3:20
Reciprocal: Genesis 2:9 - tree of knowledge Numbers 22:38 - have I Numbers 23:8 - General 1 Kings 22:38 - and the dogs Nehemiah 4:15 - God Isaiah 16:6 - but Isaiah 19:3 - and they Isaiah 47:13 - Let now Jeremiah 28:17 - Hananiah Jeremiah 50:35 - her wise men Jeremiah 50:38 - mad Ezekiel 21:29 - they see Daniel 2:4 - tell Daniel 2:9 - for Daniel 2:27 - cannot Daniel 5:7 - to bring Micah 3:7 - the seers Acts 8:11 - he had
Gill's Notes on the Bible
That frustrateth the tokens of the liars,.... Struck dumb the oracles of the Heathens, disappointed their lying priests, and made void all the signs and tokens they gave the people, that such and such things would come to pass, which did not, and which proved them to be liars:
and maketh diviners mad; soothsayers, astrologers, and such sort of persons, who pretended to foretell future events; but these not answering to their predictions, they became mad, because their credit was ruined, and they lost their reward:
that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolishness; the wise philosophers among the Gentiles, and their schemes of philosophy, which were confounded and destroyed, and proved foolish, through the ministration of the Gospel, 1 Corinthians 1:20.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
That frustrateth - Hebrew, ‘Breaking:’ that is, destroying, rendering vain. The idea is, that that which necromancers and diviners relied on as certain demonstration that what they predicted would be fulfilled, God makes vain and inefficacious. The event which they predicted did not follow, and all their alleged proofs that they were endowed with divine or miraculous power he rendered vain.
The tokens - Hebrew, אתות 'othôth - ‘Signs.’ This word is usually applied to miracles, or to signs of the divine interposition and presence. Here it means the things on which diviners and soothsayers relied; the tricks of cunning and sleight-of-hand which they adduced as miracles, or as demonstrations that they were under a divine influence. See the word more fully explained in the notes at Isaiah 7:2.
The liars - Deceivers, boasters - meaning conjurers, or false prophets (compare Jeremiah 50:36; see also the note at Isaiah 16:6).
And maketh diviners mad - That is, makes them foolish, or deprives them of wisdom. They pretend to foretell future events, but the event does not correspond with the prediction. God orders it otherwise, and thus they are shown to be foolish, or unwise.
That turneth wise men backward - Lowth renders this, ‘Who reverseth the devices of the sages.’ The sense is, he puts them to shame. The idea seems to be derived from the fact that when one is ashamed, or disappointed, or fails of performing what he promised, he turns away his face (see 1 Kings 2:16, margin) The ‘wise men,’ here denote the sages; the diviners, the soothsayers; and the sense is, that they were not able to predict future events, and that when their prediction failed, they would be suffused with shame.
And maketh their knowledge foolish - He makes them appear to be fools. It is well known that soothsayers and diviners abounded in the East; and it is not improbable that the prophet here means that when Babylon was attacked by Cyrus, the diviners and soothsayers would predict his defeat, and the overthrow of his army, but that the result would show that they were utterly incapable of predicting a future event. The whole passage here has reference to the taking of Babylon by Cyrus, and should be interpreted accordingly.
