Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, ...

Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries. An ironic expression, deriding those evil arts, bidding defiance to them.

The great nation Babylon is likened to a beautiful and vain young lady who is now disgraced. She once lived in luxury, but now she is made to sit in the dirt.

NIV "Keep on, then, with your magic spells and with your many sorceries, which you have labored at since childhood.

This chapter is a prophecy of the destruction of Babylon, and of the Chaldeans, and declares the causes of it. The mean, low, ignominious, and miserable ...

This prophetic denunciation resonates with the idea that everyone needs a savior, and warns against the folly of seeking refuge in the vanities of the world ...

God's command here is full of mocking irony, because he encourages Babylonia to continue to depend on enchantments and sorceries.

Woe to those on whom God comes to take vengeance; for who knows the power of his anger and what a fearful thing it is to fall into his hands? Were it a man like ...

David Guzik commentary on Isaiah 47 describes the humiliation of Babylon whose pride and arrogance will be rebuked by the Lord.