Isaiah 29:7-17

7 Then the hordes of all the nations that fight against Ariel, that attack her and her fortress and besiege her, will be as it is with a dream, with a vision in the night—
8 as when a hungry person dreams of eating, but awakens hungry still; as when a thirsty person dreams of drinking, but awakens faint and thirsty still. So will it be with the hordes of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion.
9 Be stunned and amazed, blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not from wine, stagger, but not from beer.
10 The LORD has brought over you a deep sleep: He has sealed your eyes (the prophets); he has covered your heads (the seers).
11 For you this whole vision is nothing but words sealed in a scroll. And if you give the scroll to someone who can read, and say, “Read this, please,” they will answer, “I can’t; it is sealed.”
12 Or if you give the scroll to someone who cannot read, and say, “Read this, please,” they will answer, “I don’t know how to read.”
13 The Lord says: “These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is based on merely human rules they have been taught.[a]
14 Therefore once more I will astound these people with wonder upon wonder; the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish.”
15 Woe to those who go to great depths to hide their plans from the LORD, who do their work in darkness and think, “Who sees us? Who will know?”
16 You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, “You did not make me”? Can the pot say to the potter, “You know nothing”?
17 In a very short time, will not Lebanon be turned into a fertile field and the fertile field seem like a forest?

Cross References 35

  • 1. Micah 4:11-12; Zechariah 12:9
  • 2. S ver 1
  • 3. S Job 20:8
  • 4. S Psalms 73:20
  • 5. ver 5,7; Isaiah 41:11,15; Jeremiah 30:16; Zechariah 12:3
  • 6. Isaiah 17:12-14; Isaiah 54:17
  • 7. ver 14; Jeremiah 4:9; Habakkuk 1:5
  • 8. S Isaiah 6:10
  • 9. Isaiah 51:17; Isaiah 63:6; Jeremiah 13:13; Jeremiah 25:27
  • 10. S Leviticus 10:9; Isaiah 28:1; Isaiah 51:21-22
  • 11. S Psalms 60:3; S Isaiah 3:12
  • 12. S Judges 4:21; John 1:5
  • 13. Psalms 69:23; S Isaiah 6:9-10; Isaiah 44:18; Romans 11:8*; 2 Thessalonians 2:9-11
  • 14. Micah 3:6
  • 15. S 1 Samuel 9:9
  • 16. S Isaiah 28:7
  • 17. S Isaiah 8:16; Daniel 8:26; Daniel 12:9; Matthew 13:11; Revelation 5:1-2
  • 18. Jeremiah 14:11; Haggai 1:2; Haggai 2:14
  • 19. S Psalms 50:16
  • 20. S Psalms 119:70; Isaiah 58:2; Jeremiah 12:2; Ezekiel 33:31
  • 21. Matthew 15:8-9*; Mark 7:6-7*; Colossians 2:22
  • 22. S Job 10:16; Habakkuk 1:5
  • 23. S Job 5:13; Jeremiah 8:9; Jeremiah 49:7
  • 24. Isaiah 6:9-10; 1 Corinthians 1:19*
  • 25. S Genesis 3:8; S Isaiah 28:15
  • 26. S Job 8:3; Psalms 10:11-13; Psalms 94:7; Isaiah 47:10; Isaiah 57:12; Ezekiel 8:12; Ezekiel 9:9
  • 27. S 2 Kings 21:16; S Job 22:13
  • 28. S Job 10:9; S Isaiah 10:15
  • 29. S Genesis 2:7
  • 30. Isaiah 45:9; Isaiah 64:8; Jeremiah 18:6; Romans 9:20-21*
  • 31. S Job 9:12
  • 32. S Isaiah 10:25
  • 33. S Isaiah 2:13
  • 34. Psalms 84:6; Psalms 107:33
  • 35. Isaiah 32:15

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Hebrew; Septuagint "They worship me in vain;" / "their teachings are merely human rules"
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