Isaiah 47:15
Good News Translation
That is all the good they will do you--those astrologers you've consulted all your life. They all will leave you and go their own way, and none will be left to save you."

New Revised Standard Version
Such to you are those with whom you have labored, who have trafficked with you from your youth; they all wander about in their own paths; there is no one to save you.

Contemporary English Version
These are the fortunetellers you have done business with all of your life. But they don't know where they are going, and they can't save you.

New American Bible
Thus do your wizards serve you with whom you have toiled from your youth; They wander their separate ways, with none to save you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Such are all the things become to thee, in which thou hast laboured: thy merchants from thy youth, every one hath erred in his own way, there is none that can save thee.

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Such are all the things become to thee, in which thou hast laboured: thy merchants from thy youth, every one hath erred in his own way, there is none that can save thee.

thy merchants

Isaiah 56:11 And most impudent dogs, they never had enough: the shepherds themselves knew no understanding: all have turned aside into their own way, every one after his own gain, from the first even to the last.

Ezekiel 27:12-25 The Carthaginians thy merchants supplied thy fairs with a multitude of all kinds of riches, with silver, iron, tin, and lead, . . .

Revelation 18:11-19 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her: for no man shall buy their merchandise any more. . . .

they shall.

Jeremiah 51:6-9 Flee ye from the midst of Babylon, and let every one save his own life: be not silent upon her iniquity: for it is the time of revenge from the Lord, he will render unto her what she hath deserved. . . .

Revelation 18:15-17 The merchants of these things, who were made rich, shall stand afar off from her, for fear of her torments, weeping and mourning, . . .

Context
The Fall of Babylon Predicted
14Behold they are as stubble, fire hath burnt them, they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flames: there are no coals wherewith they may be warmed, nor fire, that they may sit thereat. 15Such are all the things become to thee, in which thou hast laboured: thy merchants from thy youth, every one hath erred in his own way, there is none that can save thee.
Cross References
Revelation 18:11
And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her: for no man shall buy their merchandise any more.

Isaiah 5:29
Their roaring like that of a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea they shall roar, and take hold of the prey, and they shall keep fast hold of it, and there shall be none to deliver it.

Isaiah 43:13
And from the beginning I am the same, and there is none that can deliver out of my hind: I will work, and who shall turn it away?

Isaiah 46:7
You that contribute gold out of the bag, and weigh out silver in the scales: and hire a goldsmith to make a god: and they fall down and worship.

Isaiah 47:13
Thou hast failed in the multitude of thy counsels: let now the astrologers stand and save thee, they that gazed at the stars, and counted the months, that from them they might tell the things that shall come to thee.

Isaiah 47:14
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