Isaiah 47:10
You have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, “No one sees me”; 1 your wisdom and your knowledge lead you astray, 1 but you say in your heart, “I exist, and there is no one else like me.” 1
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Job 22:13You say, 'What does God know? 1 Can he judge through the thick darkness? 1
Psalms 52:7“See, this is a man who did not make God his refuge, 1 but he trusted in the abundance of his wealth, 1 and he was strong when he destroyed others.” 1
Psalms 64:5They encourage themselves in an evil plan; 1 they consult privately together in order to set traps; 1 they say, “Who will see us?” 1
Ecclesiastes 8:8No one is ruler over his breath so as to stop the breath, + 8:8 Some versions have No one is ruler over the wind so as to stop the wind . 2 and no one has power over the day of his death. 1 No one is discharged from the army during a battle, 2 and wickedness will not rescue those who are its slaves.
Isaiah 28:15This will happen because you said, “We have made a covenant with death, 1 and with Sheol we have reached an agreement. So when the overwhelming whip passes through, it will not reach us. 1 For we have made a lie our refuge, and taken shelter in falsehood.” 1
Isaiah 44:20It is as if he were eating ashes; his deceived heart misleads him. He cannot rescue himself, nor does he say, “This thing in my right hand is a false god.” 1
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 47:8-15
Babylon Threatened. ( b. c. 708.) 7 And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it. 8 Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children: 9 But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come… Read the whole commentary →