Isaiah 28:29

King James Version

This also cometh forth from the Lord of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.

Parallel Translations

Complete Jewish Bible
This too comes from Adonai -Tzva'ot — his counsel is wonderful, his wisdom great.

Darby Translation
This also cometh forth from Jehovah of hosts; he is wonderful in counsel, great in wisdom.

Easy-to-Read Version
This lesson comes from the Lord All-Powerful, who gives wonderful advice. He is very wise.

Hebrew Names Version
This also comes forth from the LORD of Hosts, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts: Wonderful is His counsel, and great His wisdom.

American Standard Version
This also cometh forth from Jehovah of hosts, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.

Bible in Basic English
This comes from the Lord of armies, purposing wonders, and wise in all his acts.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
This also commeth of the Lorde of hoastes, which worketh with wonderfull wysdome, and bringeth excellent workes to passe.

Geneva Bible (1587)
This also commeth from the Lorde of hostes, which is wonderfull in counsell, and excellent in workes.

George Lamsa Translation
This also comes forth from the LORD of hosts, who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in instruction.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And these signs came forth from the Lord of hosts. Take counsel, exalt vain comfort.

English Revised Version
This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible
This also comes from the LORD of Hosts, who is wonderful in counsel and excellent wisdom.

Amplified Bible
This also comes from the LORD of hosts, Who has made His counsel wonderful and His wisdom great.

World English Bible
This also comes forth from Yahweh of Hosts, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.

Contemporary English Version
This wonderful knowledge comes from the Lord All-Powerful, who has such great wisdom.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Even this, from Yahweh of hosts, cometh forth, - Who hath bestowed distinction upon counsel, And magnified sound wisdom.

Good News Translation
All this wisdom comes from the Lord Almighty. The plans God makes are wise, and they always succeed.

King James Version (1611)
This also commeth forth from the Lord of hostes, which is wonderfull in counsell, and excellent in working.

New International Version (1984)
All this also comes from the LORD Almighty, wonderful in counsel and magnificent in wisdom.

New Century Version
This lesson also comes from the Lord All-Powerful, who gives wonderful advice, who is very wise.

New English Translation
This also comes from the Lord who commands armies, who gives supernatural guidance and imparts great wisdom.

New International Version
All this also comes from the Lord Almighty, whose plan is wonderful, whose wisdom is magnificent.

New American Standard Bible
This also comes from the LORD of armies, Who has made His counsel wonderful and His wisdom great.

New King James Version
This also comes from the LORD of hosts, Who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in guidance.

New Living Translation
The Lord of Heaven's Armies is a wonderful teacher, and he gives the farmer great wisdom.

Lexham English Bible
This also comes forth from Yahweh of hosts. He is wonderful in advice; he makes great wisdom.

Literal Translation
This also comes from Jehovah of Hosts, doing wonders in counsel, making sound wisdom great.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
This and soch like thinges come of the LORDE of hostes which is maruelous in councel, and greate in rightuousnesse.

Update Bible Version
This also comes forth from Yahweh of hosts, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.

Webster's Bible Translation
This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, [who] is wonderful in counsel, [and] excellent in operation.

Douay-Rheims Bible
This also is come forth from the Lord God of hosts, to make his counsel wonderful, and magnify justice.

Revised Standard Version
This also comes from the LORD of hosts; he is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.

New Life Bible
This also comes from the Lord of All, Who has given wonderful wise words and great wisdom.

New Revised Standard
This also comes from the Lord of hosts; he is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.

Christian Standard Bible®
This also comes from the Lord of Hosts. He gives wonderful advice; He gives great wisdom.

English Standard Version
This also comes from the Lord of hosts; he is wonderful in counsel and excellent in wisdom.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And this thing yede out of the Lord God of oostis, that he schulde make wondirful councel, and magnefie riytfulnesse.

Young's Literal Translation
Even this from Jehovah of Hosts hath gone out, He hath made counsel wonderful, He hath made wisdom great!

New American Standard Bible (1995)
This also comes from the LORD of hosts, Who has made His counsel wonderful and His wisdom great.

Contextual Overview

²³ Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech. ²⁴ Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground? ²⁵ When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place? ²⁶ For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him. ²⁷ For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod. ²⁸ Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen. ²⁹ This also cometh forth from the Lord of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.

Bible Verse Review
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This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.

cometh 21,22; 9:6; Job 5:9; 37:23; Psalms 40:5; 92:5; Jeremiah 32:19; Daniel 4:2,3; Romans 11:33 Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 2:7 - cunning;  Isaiah 25:1 - thy counsels;  Acts 2:11 - wonderful;  Acts 4:28 - and;  Ephesians 1:11 - the counsel

Gill's Notes on the Bible

This also cometh from the Lord of hosts,.... All this wisdom the husbandman has, in manuring his ground, in sowing it with proper seed, and in threshing it out in a manner suitable to it. Agriculture or husbandry, even among the Heathens, is always ascribed to God, as an invention of his, and it was the first work which God put man to, and instructed him in, Genesis 3:23 and as this, so all other arts, and sciences, and manufactures, come from God, even all things in nature, providence, and grace, and the knowledge of them; wherefore he himself must be infinitely wise and knowing; see Psalm 94:9 and be as he is next described:

which is wonderful in counsel: in giving counsel to man, both with respect to things temporal and spiritual; and whose counsel is always wise and good, and for the best; and, when taken, infallibly succeeds. See an instance of his wonderful counsel, Revelation 3:18 and also he is "wonderful" in forming wise plans and schemes of operation; the wise plan of his works of creation and providence was formed in his vast and infinite mind from eternity; the wise scheme of our redemption and salvation by Christ was concerted by him, wherein he has abounded towards us in all wisdom and prudence; and the manner, means, time, and place, of his gathering and the effectual calling of his people, are all wisely fixed by him; and he does all things after "the counsel of his will", Ephesians 1:11 and therefore it follows:

and excellent in working; both as to the matter or things wrought by him, which are the most excellent things in nature, providence, and grace, wrought out either by the Father, or the Son, or the Holy Spirit; and as to manner of working, all being done well and wisely; and likewise with respect to the end, his own glory, and the good of his people.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This also cometh … - That is, these various devices for threshing his grain comes from the Lord no less than the skill with which he tills his land. (see Isaiah 28:26).

And excellent in working - Or rather, who magnifies (חגדיל chigdiyl ) his wisdom (תוּשׁיה tûshı̂yâh ). This word properly means wisdom, or understanding Job 11:6; Job 12:16; Job 26:3; Proverbs 3:21; Proverbs 8:14; Proverbs 18:1. The idea of the prophet is, that God, who had so wisely taught the farmer, and who had instructed him to use such various methods in his husbandry, would also be himself wise, and would pursue similar methods with his people. He would not always pursue the same unvarying course, but would vary his dispensations as they should need, and as would best secure their holiness and happiness. We see:

1. The reason of afflictions. It is for the same cause which induces the farmer to employ various methods on his farm.

2. We are not to expect the same unvarying course in God‘s dealings with us. It would be as unreasonable as to expect that the farmer would be always plowing, or always threshing.

3. We are not to expect always the same kind of afflictions. The farmer uses different machines and modes of threshing, and adapts them to the nature of the grain. So God uses different modes, and adapts them to the nature, character, and disposition of his people. One man requires one mode of discipline, and another another. At one time we need one mode of correction to call us from sin and temptation; at another another. We may lay it down as a general rule, that “the divine judgments are usually in the line of our offences;” and by the nature of the judgment we may usually ascertain the nature of the sin. If a man‘s besetting sin is “pride,” the judgment will usually be something that is suited to humble his pride; if it be covetousness, his property may be removed, or it may be made a curse; if it be undue attachment to children or friends, they may be removed.

4. God will not crush or destroy his people. The farmer does not crush or destroy his grain. In all the various methods which he uses, he takes care not to pursue it too far, and not to injure the grain. So with God‘s dealings with his people. His object is not to destroy them, but it is to separate the chaff from the wheat; and he will afflict them only so much as may be necessary to accomplish this. He will not be always bruising his people, but will in due time remit his strokes - just as the thresher does.

5. We should, therefore, bear afflictions and chastisements with patience. God deals with us in mercy - and the design of all his dispensations toward us in prosperity and adversity; in sickness and in health; in success and in disappointment, is to produce the richest and most abundant fruits of righteousness, and to prepare us to enter into his kingdom above.