Isaiah 29:14

American Standard Version (1901)

therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לָכֵ֗ן הִנְנִ֥י יוֹסִ֛ף לְהַפְלִ֥יא אֶת־הָֽעָם־הַזֶּ֖ה הַפְלֵ֣א וָפֶ֑לֶא וְאָֽבְדָה֙ חָכְמַ֣ת חֲכָמָ֔יו וּבִינַ֥ת נְבֹנָ֖יו תִּסְתַּתָּֽר

Transliteration

Therefore hinĕnî yôsip̱ to-do-hap̱lîʾ ʾet-hā-ʿām-ha-zzeh hap̱lēʾ and-p̱eleʾ and-ʾāḇĕdāh ḥoḵmat ḥăḵāmāyw and-bînat nĕḇōnāyw tistattār

Grammar Details

• *lāḵēn*: adverb - therefore/thus
• *hinĕnî*: particle hinnēh + 1st person singular suffix - behold I
• *yôsip̱*: verb, hiphil participle, masculine singular - continuing/proceeding
• *lĕ-hap̱lîʾ*: preposition lamed + verb, hiphil infinitive construct - to deal wonderfully with
• *ʾet-hā-ʿām-ha-zzeh*: direct object marker + definite article + noun, masculine singular + definite article + demonstrative pronoun - this people
• *hap̱lēʾ*: verb, hiphil infinitive absolute - wonder
• *wā-p̱eleʾ*: conjunction waw + noun, masculine singular - and a wonder
• *wĕ-ʾāḇĕdāh*: conjunction waw + verb, qal perfect with waw consecutive, 3rd person feminine singular - and will perish
• *ḥoḵmat*: noun, feminine singular construct - wisdom of
• *ḥăḵāmāyw*: noun, masculine plural with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - its wise ones
• *ū-ḇînat*: conjunction waw + noun, feminine singular construct - and understanding of
• *nĕḇōnāyw*: verb, niphal participle, masculine plural with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - its discerning ones
• *tistattār*: verb, hithpael imperfect, 3rd person feminine singular - will hide itself

Word Meanings

• *yôsip̱*: continuing/proceeding/adding
• *hap̱lîʾ*: deal wonderfully with/do an extraordinary thing/work wonders
• *hap̱lēʾ wā-p̱eleʾ*: wonder and a wonder/extraordinary and amazing/a most amazing thing
• *ʾāḇĕdāh*: will perish/be destroyed/vanish
• *ḥoḵmat*: wisdom/skill/cleverness
• *ḥăḵāmāyw*: its wise ones/sages/experts
• *bînat*: understanding/insight/discernment
• *nĕḇōnāyw*: its discerning ones/intelligent ones/prudent ones
• *tistattār*: will hide itself/be concealed/disappear

Referenced Verses

• Hab 1:5 : 5 Behold ye among the nations, and look, and wonder marvellously; for I am working a work in your days, which ye will not believe though it be told you.
• Jer 49:7 : 7 Of Edom. Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?
• Isa 6:9-9 : 9 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. 10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.
• Isa 28:21 : 21 For Jehovah will rise up as in mount Perazim, he will be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his strange work, and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
• John 9:29-34 : 29 We know that God hath spoken unto Moses: but as for this man, we know not whence he is. 30 The man answered and said unto them, Why, herein is the marvel, that ye know not whence he is, and [yet] he opened mine eyes. 31 We know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and do his will, him he heareth. 32 Since the world began it was never heard that any one opened the eyes of a man born blind. 33 If this man were not from God, he could do nothing. 34 They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.
• John 9:39-41 : 39 And Jesus said, For judgment came I into this world, that they that see not may see; and that they that see may become blind. 40 Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said unto him, Are we also blind? 41 Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye would have no sin: but now ye say, We see: your sin remaineth.
• 1 Cor 1:19-24 : 19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And the discernment of the discerning will I bring to nought. 20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21 For seeing that in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom knew not God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save them that believe. 22 Seeing that Jews ask for signs, and Greeks seek after wisdom: 23 but we preach Christ crucified, unto Jews a stumblingblock, and unto Gentiles foolishness; 24 but unto them that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
• 1 Cor 3:19 : 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He that taketh the wise in their craftiness:
• Job 5:13 : 13 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; And the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
• Acts 28:26-27 : 26 saying, Go thou unto this people, and say, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall in no wise understand; And seeing ye shall see, and shall in no wise perceive: 27 For this people's heart is waxed gross, And their ears are dull of hearing, And their eyes they have closed; Lest, haply they should perceive with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And should turn again, And I should heal them.
• Rom 1:21-22 : 21 because that, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened. 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
• Rom 1:28 : 28 And even as they refused to have God in [their] knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
• Isa 29:9-9 : 9 Tarry ye and wonder; take your pleasure and be blind: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. 10 For Jehovah hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes, the prophets; and your heads, the seers, hath he covered.
• Jer 8:7-9 : 7 Yea, the stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle-dove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the law of Jehovah. 8 How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of Jehovah is with us? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes hath wrought falsely. 9 The wise men are put to shame, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of Jehovah; and what manner of wisdom is in them?
• Isa 19:3 : 3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst of it; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek unto the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
• Isa 19:11-14 : 11 The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the counsel of the wisest counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings? 12 Where then are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now; and let them know what Jehovah of hosts hath purposed concerning Egypt. 13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Memphis are deceived; they have caused Egypt to go astray, that are the corner-stone of her tribes. 14 Jehovah hath mingled a spirit of perverseness in the midst of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
• Obad 1:8 : 8 Shall I not in that day, saith Jehovah, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau?
• Luke 10:24 : 24 for I say unto you, that many prophets and kings desired to see the things which ye see, and saw them not; and to hear the things which ye hear, and heard them not.