Isaiah 47:10

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Summary

For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me.

Thou hast trusted

Thou hast said

Thy wisdom

1 Corinthians 3:19

I am

Isaiah 47:8

General references

Bible References

Thou hast trusted

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.”

No one sues righteously and no one pleads honestly.

They trust in confusion and speak lies;
They conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity.

“Behold, the man who would not make God his refuge,
But trusted in the abundance of his riches
And was strong in his evil desire.”

Men of low degree are only vanity and men of rank are a lie;
In the balances they go up;
They are together lighter than breath.

Thou hast said

Woe to those who deeply hide their plans from the Lord,
And whose deeds are done in a dark place,
And they say, “Who sees us?” or “Who knows us?”

“You say, ‘What does God know?
Can He judge through the thick darkness?

He says to himself, “God has forgotten;
He has hidden His face; He will never see it.”

They hold fast to themselves an evil purpose;
They talk of laying snares secretly;
They say, “Who can see them?”

They have said, “The Lord does not see,

Nor does the God of Jacob pay heed.”

No man has authority to restrain the wind with the wind, or authority over the day of death; and there is no discharge in the time of war, and evil will not deliver those who practice it.

“Can a man hide himself in hiding places
So I do not see him?” declares the Lord.
“Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the Lord.

Then He said to me, “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, ‘The Lord does not see us; the Lord has forsaken the land.’”

Then He said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is very, very great, and the land is filled with blood and the city is full of perversion; for they say, ‘The Lord has forsaken the land, and the Lord does not see!’

Thy wisdom

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes
And clever in their own sight!

“Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre, ‘Thus says the Lord God,
“Because your heart is lifted up
And you have said, ‘I am a god,
I sit in the seat of gods
In the heart of the seas’;
Yet you are a man and not God,
Although you make your heart like the heart of God—

Professing to be wise, they became fools,

For it is written,
“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
And the cleverness of the clever I will set aside.”

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

I am

“Now, then, hear this, you sensual one,
Who dwells securely,
Who says in your heart,
‘I am, and there is no one besides me.
I will not sit as a widow,
Nor know loss of children.’

General references

Anyone who is found will be thrust through,
And anyone who is captured will fall by the sword.

“Stand fast now in your spells
And in your many sorceries
With which you have labored from your youth;
Perhaps you will be able to profit,
Perhaps you may cause trembling.

Professing to be wise, they became fools,

But as it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.