8:19 1 They will say to you, “Seek oracles at the pits used to conjure up underworld spirits, from the magicians who chirp and mutter incantations. 2 Should people not seek oracles from their gods, by asking the dead about the destiny of the living?” 3
15:2 They went up to the temple, 4
the people of Dibon went up to the high places to lament. 5
Because of what happened to Nebo and Medeba, 6 Moab wails.
Every head is shaved bare,
every beard is trimmed off. 7
44:25 who frustrates the omens of the empty talkers 8
and humiliates 9 the omen readers,
who overturns the counsel of the wise men 10
and makes their advice 11 seem foolish,
47:12 Persist 12 in trusting 13 your amulets
and your many incantations,
which you have faithfully recited 14 since your youth!
Maybe you will be successful 15 –
maybe you will scare away disaster. 16
47:1 “Fall down! Sit in the dirt,
O virgin 17 daughter Babylon!
Sit on the ground, not on a throne,
O daughter of the Babylonians!
Indeed, 18 you will no longer be called delicate and pampered.
“By my strong hand I have accomplished this,
by my strategy that I devised.
I invaded the territory of nations, 19
and looted their storehouses.
Like a mighty conqueror, 20 I brought down rulers. 21