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Isaiah 29:14 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their prudent men will be hidden.” "
Isaiah 29:14
Verse in Context
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12 and the book is delivered to one who is not educated, saying, “Read this, please;” and he says, “I can’t read.”
13 The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;
14 therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their prudent men will be hidden.”
15 Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from the LORD, and whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us?” and “Who knows us?”
16 You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay, that the thing made should say about him who made it, “He didn’t make me;” or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding”?
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Isaiah 29:1
"Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts come around;"
Isaiah 29:2
"then I will distress Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation. She shall be to me as an altar hearth."
Isaiah 29:3
"I will encamp against you all around you, and will lay siege against you with posted troops. I will raise siege works against you."
Isaiah 29:4
"You will be brought down, and will speak out of the ground. Your speech will mumble out of the dust. Your voice will be as of one who has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech will whisper out of the dust."
Isaiah 29:5
"But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. Yes, it will be in an instant, suddenly."
Isaiah 29:6
"She will be visited by the LORD of Armies with thunder, with earthquake, with great noise, with whirlwind and storm, and with the flame of a devouring fire."
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