Isaiah 29:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁴ so I will again do amazing things with this people, shocking and amazing. The wisdom of their wise shall perish, and the discernment of the discerning shall be hidden.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ Therefore, behold! I will again do marvelous things with this people, marvelous and astonishing things; and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their discerning men will vanish or be hidden.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ I will go on doing amazing things to these people, shocking and startling things. The wisdom of their wise will perish, and the discernment of their discerning will be hidden.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ for this reason, behold, I will proceed to accomplish a wonder for this people, a great and mystifying miracle. For wisdom will perish from their wise, and the understanding of their prudent will be concealed.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁴ Therefore, behold, I will proceed to cause an admiration in this people, by a great and wonderful miracle: for wisdom shall perish from their wise men, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.

Isaiah 29:14 Cross References

Job 12:17

He leads counselors away stripped and makes fools of judges.

Job 5:13

He takes the wise in their own craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.

Isaiah 10:12

When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, he will punish the arrogant boasting of the king of Assyria and his haughty pride.

Isaiah 19:3

the spirit of the Egyptians within them will be emptied out, and I will confound their plans; they will consult the idols and the spirits of the dead and the ghosts and the familiar spirits;

Isaiah 28:21

For the Lord will rise up as on Mount Perazim; he will rage as in the valley of Gibeon to do his deed—strange is his deed!— and to work his work—alien is his work!

Isaiah 44:25

who frustrates the omens of soothsayers and makes fools of diviners; who turns back the wise and makes their knowledge foolish;

Isaiah 63:17

Why, O Lord, do you let us stray from your ways and let our heart harden, so that we do not fear you? Turn back for the sake of your servants, the tribes that are your heritage.

Isaiah 65:7

their iniquities and their ancestors’ iniquities together, says the Lord; because they offered incense on the mountains and reviled me on the hills, I will measure into their laps full payment for their actions.

Jeremiah 19:7

And in this place I will make void the plans of Judah and Jerusalem and will make them fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hand of those who seek their life. I will give their dead bodies for food to the birds of the air and to the wild animals of the earth.

Jeremiah 49:7

Concerning Edom. Thus says the Lord of hosts: Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?

Obadiah 1:8

On that day, says the Lord, I will destroy the wise out of Edom and understanding out of Mount Esau.

Habakkuk 1:5

Look at the nations and see! Be astonished! Be astounded! For a work is being done in your days that you would not believe if you were told.

Luke 10:24

For I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see what you see but did not see it and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.”

Romans 1:28

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to an unfit mind and to do things that should not be done.

1 Corinthians 3:19

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness,”