Isaiah 29:15

Woe [to] those going deep from YHWH to hide counsel, || And whose works have been in darkness. And they say, “Who is seeing us? And who is knowing us?”

Literal Standard Version

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

14Therefore, behold, I am adding to do wonderfully with this people, || A wonder, and a marvel, || And the wisdom of its wise ones has perished, || And the understanding of its intelligent ones hides itself.”

16Your perversion! Is the potter esteemed as clay, || That the work says of its maker, “He has not made me?” And the framed thing said of its framer, “He did not understand?”

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Cross References

2 Samuel 11:27and the mourning passes by, and David sends and gathers her to his house, and she is to him for a wife, and bears a son to him; and the thing which David has done is evil in the eyes of YHWH.

Job 22:13And you have said, How has God known? Does He judge through thickness?

Job 34:22There is no darkness nor death-shade, || For workers of iniquity to be hidden there;

Psalms 59:7Behold, they belch out with their mouths, || Swords [are] in their lips, for “Who hears?”

Psalms 73:11And they have said, “How has God known? And is there knowledge in the Most High?”

Psalms 139:1TO THE OVERSEER. A PSALM OF DAVID. YHWH, You have searched me, and know.

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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