Babylonians, Your wisdom and knowledge mislead you when you say to yourself

Isaiah 47:1-15

Go down, sit in the dust, Virgin Daughter Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, queen city of the Babylonians. No more will you be called tender or delicate. 

Our Redeemer—the Lord Almighty is his name— is the Holy One of Israel.

I was angry with my people and desecrated my inheritance; I gave them into your hand,  and you showed them no mercy. Even on the aged you laid a very heavy yoke. You said, ‘I am forever—  the eternal queen!’ But you did not consider these things or reflect on what might happen.

You have trusted in your wickedness and have said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and knowledge mislead you when you say to yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me.’ Disaster will come upon you, and you will not know how to conjure it away. A calamity will fall upon you that you cannot ward off with a ransom; a catastrophe you cannot foresee will suddenly come upon you.

All the counsel you have received has only worn you out! Let your astrologers come forward, those stargazers who make predictions month by month, let them save you from what is coming upon you. Surely they are like stubble; the fire will burn them up. They cannot even save themselves from the power of the flame. These are not coals for warmth; this is not a fire to sit by. That is all they are to you— these you have dealt with and labored with since childhood. All of them go on in their error; there is not one that can save you.

Why?

Babylonians were a tool of the Lord, but they were too proud and had no mercy to God's people, so they will be ruined and destroyed by others. Actually, they were stubble, the fire burn them up.

The wisdom and knowledge mislead them. So as the wisdom and knowledge today without the love of the Lord will be nonsense and become a disaster.

To be a real wise man is to fear the Lord and trust in Jesus as my redeemer. This is the only way, there is no other God can save us.

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巴比倫人本來是高貴的，現在卻住在地上，一切榮耀都要挪去。神使用巴比倫審判、刑罰以色列，但是對待以色列太超過了。走在神的前面，變得驕傲，以自己為主。神是牧者，我們是羊走在後面。

巴比倫人認為我必不致寡居，也不遭喪子之事。哪知，喪子、寡居這兩件事在一日轉眼之間必臨到你。沒有想到的，原來可靠的成為我的失敗。

他們有智慧、聰明，千算萬算也沒有算到，禍患要臨到你身；你不知何時發現（或譯：如何驅逐）災害落在你身上。藉符咒和邪術也不能救自己。 太強盛以致忘了我是誰?當我們成就愈多愈大時，要更小心、謙卑。這一切都是神在做的。

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How?

Our Redeemer, the Lord Almighty is his name, is the Holy of Isreal! I worship you forever in my life.