Isaiah 44:20

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

Feedeth

Luke 15:16

A deceived

Is there

1 Timothy 4:2

General references

Judges 17:13

Isaiah 40:21

Isaiah 43:8

Bible References

Feedeth

“Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge

And fill himself with the east wind?

For I have eaten ashes like bread
And mingled my drink with weeping

The mind of the intelligent seeks knowledge,
But the mouth of fools feeds on folly.

Ephraim feeds on wind,

And pursues the east wind continually;
He multiplies lies and violence.
Moreover, he makes a covenant with Assyria,
And oil is carried to Egypt.

And he would have gladly filled his stomach with the pods that the swine were eating, and no one was giving anything to him.

A deceived

The Lord said, ‘Who will entice Ahab to go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ And one said this while another said that.

“Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself;
For emptiness will be his reward.

My people consult their wooden idol, and their diviner’s wand informs them;
For a spirit of harlotry has led them astray,
And they have played the harlot, departing from their God.

For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.

For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false,

If we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself.

And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

And he deceives those who dwell on the earth because of the signs which it was given him to perform

in the presence of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who *had the wound of the sword and has come to life.

and the light of a lamp will not shine in you any longer; and the voice of the bridegroom and bride will not be heard in you any longer; for your merchants were the great men of the earth, because all the nations were deceived by your sorcery.

and he threw him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he would not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were completed; after these things he must be released for a short time.

Is there

Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death,
And with Sheol we have made a pact.

The overwhelming scourge will not reach us when it passes by,

For we have made falsehood our refuge and we have concealed ourselves with deception.”

O Lord, my strength and my stronghold,
And my refuge in the day of distress,
To You the nations will come
From the ends of the earth and say,
“Our fathers have inherited nothing but falsehood,
Futility and

things of no profit.”

“What profit is the idol when its maker has carved it,
Or an image, a teacher of falsehood?
For its maker trusts in his own handiwork
When he fashions speechless idols.

that is, the one whose coming is in accord with the activity of Satan, with all power and

signs and false wonders,

by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron,

General references

Then Micah said, “Now I know that the Lord will prosper me, seeing I have a Levite as priest.”

Do you not know? Have you not heard?

Has it not been declared to you from the beginning?
Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?

Bring out the people who are blind, even though they have eyes,
And the deaf, even though they have ears.