Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 47:12

12. Stand now with thine inchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth : if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.

This Word notes; Either 1. continuance. Persist or go on in these Practises. Or 2. their gesture. For those that enquired of their gods by any of these superstitious Practices used to stand, this being a posture, both of Reverence, and waiting for an Answer. But this is not a command or concession, but a sacred Irony, or scoff at the folly of these Men, who having so oft been disappointed by these Impostures, yet were as forward to use them, and trust to them, as if they had never deceived them.

From the beginning of thy Common-wealth or Kingdome. For the Chaldeans in all Ages were famous, Or rather infamous, for the study and practice of these Arts.