en_tn/isa/47/12.md

Connecting Statement:

Yahweh continues to speak to Babylon about her downfall as if she were a queen who is humiliated. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor and rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification)

Persist in casting your spells ... perhaps you will scare away disaster

Yahweh mocks Babylon by telling her to continue to practice her sorcery to keep bad things away, but he knows that it will not help her. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-irony)

translationWords

• rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/sorcery
• rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/faithful
• rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/save
• rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/heaven
• rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/declare
• rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/newmoon