I was angry with My people: (Isaiah 47:6)
Babylon thought that she conquered Judah and Jerusalem through her own power. But Babylon didn’t see that she really conquered them because God was angry with His people, and therefore used Babylon as an instrument of His work. God says, “You didn’t know that I had given them into your hand.”
The reasons why sudden humiliation comes to Babylon. (Read Isaiah 47:8-9)
power given you by the assistance of evil spirits, in spite of the great abundance of your enchantments. (Isaiah 47:9)
Babylon was famous as a founding place and breeding ground for occultic arts and practices.
The pride and arrogance of Babylon is rebuked. (Read Isaiah 47:10-11)
The rebuke of Babylon’s pride is a simple fulfillment of a principle repeated three times in the Scripture: God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. (Proverbs 3:34, James 4:6, 1 Peter 5:5).
Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, and the monthly prognosticators stand up and make known to you and save you from the things that shall come upon you [Babylon]. (Isaiah 47:13)
Even during the time of Moses the magicians could not save or help the Pharaoh from the wrath of God.