Isaiah 29:14 Cross References
Isaiah 29:14
14: Because of this, I will do wonders among these hypocrites. I will show that human wisdom is foolish and even the most brilliant people lack understanding."
Habakkuk 1:5
- The LORD replied, "Look at the nations and be amazed! Watch and be astounded at what I will do! For I am doing something in your own day, something you wouldn't believe even if someone told you about it.
Isaiah 6:9
- And he said, "Yes, go. But tell my people this: `You will hear my words, but you will not understand. You will see what I do, but you will not perceive its meaning.'
- Harden the hearts of these people. Close their ears, and shut their eyes. That way, they will not see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn to me for healing."
Isaiah 28:21
- The LORD will come suddenly and in anger, as he did against the Philistines at Mount Perazim and against the Amorites at Gibeon. He will come to do a strange, unusual thing: He will destroy his own people!
1 Corinthians 1:19
- As the Scriptures say, "I will destroy human wisdom and discard their most brilliant ideas."
- So where does this leave the philosophers, the scholars, and the world's brilliant debaters? God has made them all look foolish and has shown their wisdom to be useless nonsense.
- Since God in his wisdom saw to it that the world would never find him through human wisdom, he has used our foolish preaching to save all who believe.
- God's way seems foolish to the Jews because they want a sign from heaven to prove it is true. And it is foolish to the Greeks because they believe only what agrees with their own wisdom.
- So when we preach that Christ was crucified, the Jews are offended, and the Gentiles say it's all nonsense.
Jeremiah 49:7
- This message was given concerning Edom. This is what the LORD Almighty says: "Where are all the wise men of Teman? Is there no one left to give wise counsel?
John 9:29
- We know God spoke to Moses, but as for this man, we don't know anything about him."
- "Why, that's very strange!" the man replied. "He healed my eyes, and yet you don't know anything about him!
- Well, God doesn't listen to sinners, but he is ready to hear those who worship him and do his will.
- Never since the world began has anyone been able to open the eyes of someone born blind.
- If this man were not from God, he couldn't do it."
Jeremiah 8:7
- The stork knows the time of her migration, as do the turtledove, the swallow, and the crane. They all return at the proper time each year. But not my people! They do not know what the LORD requires of them.
- " `How can you say, "We are wise because we have the law of the LORD," when your teachers have twisted it so badly?
- These wise teachers will be shamed by exile for their sin, for they have rejected the word of the LORD. Are they so wise after all?
John 9:39
- Then Jesus told him, "I have come to judge the world. I have come to give sight to the blind and to show those who think they see that they are blind."
- The Pharisees who were standing there heard him and asked, "Are you saying we are blind?"
- "If you were blind, you wouldn't be guilty," Jesus replied. "But you remain guilty because you claim you can see.
Job 5:13
- He catches those who think they are wise in their own cleverness, so that their cunning schemes are thwarted.
Luke 10:24
- I tell you, many prophets and kings have longed to see and hear what you have seen and heard, but they could not."
Obadiah 1:8
- At that time not a single wise person will be left in the whole land of Edom!" says the LORD. "For on the mountains of Edom I will destroy everyone who has wisdom and understanding.
Romans 1:28
- When they refused to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their evil minds and let them do things that should never be done.
1 Corinthians 3:19
- For the wisdom of this world is foolishness to God. As the Scriptures say, "God catches those who think they are wise in their own cleverness."
Isaiah 19:11
- What fools are the counselors of Zoan! Their best counsel to the king of Egypt is stupid and wrong. Will they still boast of their wisdom? Will they dare tell Pharaoh about their long line of wise ancestors?
- What has happened to your wise counselors, Pharaoh? If they are so wise, let them tell you what the LORD Almighty is going to do to Egypt.
- The wise men from Zoan are fools, and those from Memphis are deluded. The leaders of Egypt have ruined the land with their foolish counsel.
- The LORD has sent a spirit of foolishness on them, so all their suggestions are wrong. They cause the land of Egypt to stagger like a sick drunkard.
Isaiah 29:9
- Are you amazed and incredulous? Do you not believe it? Then go ahead and be blind if you must. You are stupid, but not from wine! You stagger, but not from beer!
- For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has closed the eyes of your prophets and visionaries.
Isaiah 19:3
- The Egyptians will lose heart, and I will confuse their plans. They will plead with their idols for wisdom. They will call on spirits, mediums, and psychics to show them which way to turn.
Acts 28:26
- 'Go and say to my people, You will hear my words, but you will not understand; you will see what I do, but you will not perceive its meaning.
- For the hearts of these people are hardened, and their ears cannot hear, and they have closed their eyes--so their eyes cannot see, and their ears cannot hear, and their hearts cannot understand, and they cannot turn to me and let me heal them.'
Romans 1:21
- Yes, they knew God, but they wouldn't worship him as God or even give him thanks. And they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. The result was that their minds became dark and confused.
- Claiming to be wise, they became utter fools instead.