Isaiah 29:15

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?

Seek

And their works

Who seeth

Malachi 2:17

General references

Jeremiah 16:17

Ezekiel 8:8

John 7:49

Bible References

Seek

Ah! Those who drag iniquity along with the cords of falsehood and sin as with rope of the cart,

Because you have said, "We have {made} a covenant with death, and we have made an agreement with Sheol. [The] overwhelming flood, when it passes through, will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves in falsehood."

"Oh rebellious children!" {declares} Yahweh, "to make a plan, but not from me, and pour out a libation, but not [from] my Spirit, {so as to add} sin to sin.

And you ask, 'What does God know? Can he judge through deep gloom?

He says in his heart, "God has forgotten. He has hidden his face. He never sees."

They encourage themselves [in the] evil matter. They talk of secretly laying snares. They say, "Who will see them?"

O Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know [me].

Or can a person hide himself in secret places and I cannot see him?" {declares} Yahweh. "[Do] I not fill up the heaven and the earth?" {declares} Yahweh.

And he said to me, "Have you seen, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel [are] doing in the dark, each in the inner rooms of his idol, for [they are] saying, 'Yahweh [is] not seeing us; Yahweh has abandoned the land.'"

And he said to me, "The guilt of the house of Israel and Judah [is] {exceedingly} great, and the land is filled with bloodguilt, and the city is full of injustice. For they say Yahweh abandoned the land, and {Yahweh does not see}.

And it shall be [that] at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men {whose senses are dulled from drinking}, who say in their hearts, 'Yahweh will not do good, nor will he do evil.'

And I will kill her children with deadly disease, and all the churches will know that I am the one who searches minds and hearts, and I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

And their works

"Those are among [the ones] rebelling [against the] light; they do not recognize his ways, and they do not stay in his paths.

There is no darkness, and there is no deep shadow where instigators of mischief might hide themselves.

During {this time} [when] a crowd of many thousands had gathered together, so that they were trampling one another, he began to say to his disciples first, "Beware for yourselves of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

And this is the judgment: that the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil.

Therefore do not judge anything before the time, until the Lord should come, who will both enlighten the hidden things of darkness and will reveal the counsels of hearts, and then praise will come to each one from God.

but we have renounced shameful hidden things, not behaving with craftiness or adulterating the word of God, but with the open proclamation of the truth commending ourselves to every person's conscience before God.

Who seeth

And you felt secure in your wickedness; you said, "{No one} sees me." Your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray, and you said in your heart, "I [am], and besides me [there is] no one."

Look, they pour out [talk] with their mouth. Swords [are] on their lips, for [they say], "Who hears?"

And they say, "How does God know?" and, "Does the Most High have knowledge?"

while they say, "Yah does not see," and "The God of Jacob does not pay attention."

You have wearied Yahweh with your words, but you ask, "With what have we wearied [him]?" [You have done so] {when you say}, "Everyone who does evil [is] good in the {sight} of Yahweh, and in them he delights," or "Where [is] the God of justice?"

General references

For my eyes [are] on all their ways, they are not hidden {from before me}, and their iniquity is not concealed from before my eyes.

And he said to me, "Son of man, dig now through the wall." And I dug through the wall, and look! There was a doorway.

But this crowd who does not know the law is accursed!"