Isaiah 29:14

Therefore, see, I will proceed to do a marvelous thing among this people, wonder after wonder. 1 The wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their prudent men will disappear.” 1

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Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.

In Context

13The Lord said, “This people comes close to me with their mouths 1 and honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. 1 Their honor for me is only a commandment of men that has been taught. 1

15Woe to those who deeply hide their plans from Yahweh, 1 and whose deeds are in darkness. They say, “Who sees us, and who knows us?” 1

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Cross References

Job 12:17He leads counselors away barefoot in sorrow; 1 he turns judges into fools. 1

Isaiah 19:3The spirit of Egypt will be weakened from within. I will destroy his advice, 1 though they sought the advice of idols, dead men's spirits, mediums, and spiritualists. 1

Isaiah 28:21Yahweh will rise up as on Mount Perazim; he will rouse himself as in the Valley of Gibeon 1 to do his work, his strange work, and perform his strange deed. 1

Isaiah 44:25I who frustrate the omens of the empty talkers and who disgrace those who read omens; 1 I who overturn the wisdom of the wise and make their advice foolish. 1

Jeremiah 19:7In this place I will make the plans of Judah and Jerusalem useless. I will make them to fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hand of the ones seeking their lives. Then I will give their corpses as food to the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the earth.

Obadiah 1:8“Will I not on that day,” says Yahweh, “destroy the wise men from Edom and understanding out of the mountain of Esau?

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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