A method is developed to predict protein chromatographic behavior from batch isotherm using a a systematic empirical interpolation (EI) scheme and without relying on a mechanistic description of the dependence of protein binding on protein and salt concentration. Coupled with a lumped kinetic model with rate parameters determined from HETP measurements for non-binding conditions, the EI scheme is used to numerically predict the column behavior. For two experimental cation exchange systems considered in this work, lysozyme on SP-Sepharose-FF and a monoclonal antibody on POROS XS, predictions based on the EI scheme are in excellent agreement with experimental elution profiles under highly overloaded conditions without using any adjustable parameters. A qualitative study of the sensitivity of predicting protein elution profiles to the precision, granularity, and extent of the batch adsorption data is conducted. Based on the results for a hypothetical system, whose properties are comparable to those found in practice for protein cation exchange chromatography the results of this show that the interpolation scheme is relatively insensitive, requiring only that the ranges of protein and salt concentrations in the experimental dataset overlap those under which the protein actually elutes from the column and along with a 10% measurement precision.