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

Woe to those who scatter sin with cords of falsehood and iniquity with a cart rope!

Because you have said: We have made a covenant with death, and with the grave we are in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge. We have hidden under falsehood!

Suffer you unwilling children, says Jehovah. You pursue a purpose that is not mine. You make a covenant sacrifice without my Spirit. You add sin to sin.

So you say: 'What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

He says in his heart (to himself): God has forgotten. He has hidden his face. He will never see it!

They are determined to do evil, and they tell themselves: Let us set traps! No one can see us.

([Psalm of David]) O Jehovah, you have searched me and you know me.

Can a man hide himself in hiding places so I do not see him? asks Jehovah. Do I not fill the heavens and the earth? Declares Jehovah.

Then he said: Son of man, do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are committing in the dark, each man in the room of his carved images? For they say: 'Jehovah does not see us! Jehovah has forsaken the land!'

He answered me: The wickedness of the nations of Israel and Judah is terrible! The land is filled with murder, and the city is filled with wrongdoing. They think that Jehovah has abandoned the land and that he does not see.

At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps. I will punish the men that are satisfied with their wayward lifestyle. They say in their heart, 'Jehovah will not do good and he will not do evil.'

I will kill her children with deadly plague. Then all the congregations will know that I am the one who searches hearts and minds. I will reward each of you for what you have done.

And their works

There are those who rebel against the light. They are not acquainted with its ways, and do not stay in its paths.

There is no darkness or deep shadow where troublemakers can hide.

Thousands of people in the crowd were gathered together so much that they bumped into one another. He said to his disciples: First of all, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world. People loved the darkness rather than the light for their works were evil.

Do not judge anything before the time. Wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and make apparent the counsels of the hearts. Then each man's praise will come from God.

We have renounced the hidden things of shame. And we do not walk in craftiness and deceit. We do not adulterate the word of God. But by the manifestation of the truth we commend ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

Who seeth

You felt sure of yourself in your evil. You thought that no one could see you. Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray. Then you said to yourself: 'I am God! There is no one else like me.'

See what pours out of their mouths, swords from their lips! They think: Who will hear us?

They ask: How does God know? And is there knowledge with the most High?

They say: Jehovah does not see it. The God of Jacob does not even pay attention to it.

You have made Jehovah weary with your words. You ask: 'How have we wearied him?' You say: 'Every one that does evil is good in Jehovah's sight.' You also say: 'He delights in them.' Then you ask: 'where is the God of justice?'

General references

I see everything that they do. They cannot hide anything from me. Their wickedness cannot be hidden; I can see it.

He said to me: Son of man, dig through the wall. So I dug through the wall, and I saw a door.

This crowd does not know the law. It is contemptible