John Trapp on Isaiah 44:25

Ver. 25. That fruſtrateh the tokens of the lyars] Their falſe Prognoſtiks of the long laſtingneſs of the Babylonian Empire; and therefore no likelihood of the Jews enlargement.

And maketh diviners mad] Diviners the Latines call Southſayers and ſuch fellows, by a term that is altogether too good for them; quum ſint potius diabolici, ſaith Piſcator, ſith they are rather Devils incarnate than Divines. By a like form of ſpeech Alſted ſaid of his Germans, In Encyclop. that if the Sabbath day ſhould be named according to their obſerving of it, Daemoniacus potius quam Dominicus diceretur.

That turneth wiſe men backward] The worlds Wizzards, who approved of that which the Diviners affirmed, judging according to outward appearance, &c.