Woe unto them
Or, "O ye", that seek deep to hide their counsel from the
Lord;
which they consulted against Christ, to take away his life, to
persecute his apostles, and hinder the spread of his Gospel;
which though they consulted in private, and formed deep schemes,
imagining they were not observed by the Lord, yet he that sits in
the heaven saw them, and laughed at their vain imaginations, (
Psalms
2:1-4 ) : and their works are in the dark;
in the dark night, as if the darkness could conceal them from the
all seeing eye of God; such works are truly works of darkness,
but cannot be hid, though they flatter themselves they will:
and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
as no man, they imagined, did, so not God himself; into such
atheism do wicked men sink, when desirous of bringing their
schemes into execution, they have taken great pains to form; and
which they please themselves are so deeply laid, as that they
cannot fail of succeeding; but hear what follows ( Isaiah 29:16
) .
Isaiah 29:15
