Isaiah 29:15

Woe to you who use the depths of the heart, so that you may hide your intentions from the Lord. Their works are done in darkness, and so they say: “Who sees us?” and “Who knows us?”

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In The King James Version

Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?

In Context

14for this reason, behold, I will proceed to accomplish a wonder for this people, a great and mystifying miracle. For wisdom will perish from their wise, and the understanding of their prudent will be concealed.

16This intention of yours is perverse. It is as if the clay were to plan against the potter, or as if the work were to say to its maker: “You did not make me.” Or it is as if what has been formed were to say to the one who formed it, “You do not understand.”

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Cross References

2 Samuel 11:27But when the lamentation was completed, David sent and brought her into his house, and she became his wife, and she bore a son to him. And this word, which David had done, was displeasing in the sight of the Lord.

Job 22:13And you say: “Well, what does God know?” and, “He judges, as if through a fog,”

Job 34:22There is no darkness and no shadow of death, where those who work iniquity may be hidden.

Psalms 59:7Save me with your right hand, and hear me.

Psalms 73:11Why do you turn your hand away, even your right hand, from the midst of your sinews, until the end?

Psalms 139:1Unto the end. A Psalm of David.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 29:10-17

Threatenings against Judah. ( b. c. 725.) 9 Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. 10 For the Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered. 11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is… Read the whole commentary →

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