Isaiah 29:14

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

⁹Stop and be astonished; blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not from strong drink. ¹⁰For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep; He has shut your eyes, O prophets, and covered your heads, O seers. ¹¹And the entire vision will be to you like the words sealed in a scroll. If it is handed to a reader, he will say, "I cannot read it, because it is sealed." ¹²Or if the scroll is given to one who is not able to read, he will say, "I cannot read." ¹³Therefore the Lord said: "These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught by men. ¹⁴Therefore I will again confound these people with wonder upon wonder. The wisdom of the wise will perish, and the intelligence of the intelligent will be hidden.¹⁵Woe to those who dig deep to hide their plans from the LORD. In darkness they do their works and say, "Who sees us, and who will know?" ¹⁶You have turned things upside down, as if the potter were regarded as clay. Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, "He did not make me"? Can the pottery say of the potter, "He has no understanding"?

Bible Verse Review
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I will: Isaiah 29:9, Isaiah 28:21, Habakkuk 1:5, John 9:29-34

proceed: Heb. add

for the wisdom: Isaiah 29:10, Isaiah 6:9, Isaiah 6:10, Isaiah 19:3, Isaiah 19:11-14, Job 5:13, Jeremiah 8:7-9, Jeremiah 49:7, Obadiah 1:8, Luke 10:24, John 9:39-41, Acts 28:26, Acts 28:27, Romans 1:21, Romans 1:22, Romans 1:28, 1 Corinthians 1:19-24, 1 Corinthians 3:19

Reciprocal: Genesis 41:8 - the magicians of Egypt Deuteronomy 32:28 - General 1 Samuel 3:11 - I will do 1 Kings 11:9 - his heart 1 Kings 11:11 - thou hast not Job 12:17 - General Psalms 14:4 - Have Isaiah 19:14 - hath mingled Isaiah 44:25 - turneth Jeremiah 50:35 - her wise men Luke 8:10 - that seeing Luke 10:21 - thou hast Luke 20:7 - that John 7:49 - General John 9:30 - herein Acts 13:40 - which 1 Corinthians 1:27 - General 1 Timothy 1:7 - understanding Hebrews 9:7 - errors

Cross-References

Genesis 2:23
And the man said: "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called 'woman,' for out of man she was taken."

Genesis 13:8
So Abram said to Lot, "Please let there be no contention between you and me, or between your herdsmen and my herdsmen. After all, we are brothers.

Genesis 29:12
He told Rachel that he was Rebekah's son, a relative of her father, and she ran and told her father.

Genesis 29:13
When Laban heard the news about his sister's son Jacob, he ran out to meet him, and he embraced him and kissed him. Then he took him to his home, and Jacob told him all that had happened.

Genesis 29:15
Laban said to him, "Just because you are my relative, should you work for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be."

Judges 9:2
"Please ask all the leaders of Shechem, 'Is it better for you that seventy men, all the sons of Jerubbaal, rule over you, or just one man?' Remember that I am your own flesh and blood."

2 Samuel 5:1
Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, "Here we are, your own flesh and blood.

Micah 7:5
Do not rely on a friend; do not trust in a companion. Seal the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms.

Ephesians 5:30
For we are members of His body.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people,.... Because of their hypocrisy and formality, their regard to men, their doctrines and commandments, and not to the will and word of God, therefore he determines "to deal marvellously with this people":

[even] a marvellous work, and a wonder; that is, something exceedingly marvellous, which would be matter of astonishment to everyone that observed it; and is as follows:

for the wisdom of their wise [men] shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent [men] shall be hid; and be no more: this was eminently fulfilled in the wise men, the doctors and learned Rabbins of the Jews; and they themselves own x, that, from the time the temple was destroyed, the wise men became like to Scribes, and the Scribes to those that looked after the synagogues, and these became like the common people, and they grew worse and worse: and Maimonides acknowledges y, that this respects their present case; he says, when the Heathen princes destroyed their best things, took away their wisdom, and their books, and killed their wise men, they became ignorant and unlearned; which evil God threatened them for their iniquities, as is said in this passage: and also this had its accomplishment in the wise philosophers of the Gentiles; see 1 Corinthians 1:18.

x Misna Sota, c. 9. sect. 15. y More Nevochim, par. 2. c. 11. p. 212.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I will proceed to do - Hebrew, ‘I will add to do;’ that is, I will do it.

For the wisdom of their wise men shall perish - I will bring calamity upon them which shall baffle all the skill and wisdom of their wise men.

Shall be hid - That is, shall not appear; shall vanish. It shall not be sufficient to prevent the calamities that shall come upon the nation.