Isaiah 29:14

Geneva Bible (1560)

Therefore behold, I wil againe doe a marueilous worke in this people, euen a marueilous worke, and a wonder: for the wisdome of their wise men shall perish, and the vnderstanding of their prudent men shalbe 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 Beholde among the heathen, and regarde, and wonder, and maruaile: for I will worke a worke in your dayes: yee will not beleeue it, though it be tolde you.
• Jer 49:7 : 7 To Edom thus sayeth the Lord of hostes: Is wisdome no more in Teman? is counsel perished fro their children? is their wisdome vanished?
• Isa 6:9-9 : 9 And he sayd, Goe, and say vnto this people, Ye shall heare in deede, but ye shall not vnderstand: ye shall plainely see, and not perceiue. 10 Make the heart of this people fatte, make their eares heauie, and shut their eyes, lest they see with their eyes, and heare with their eares, and vnderstand with their hearts, and conuert, and he heale them.
• Isa 28:21 : 21 For the Lord shall stand as in mount Perazim: hee shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his worke, his strage worke, and bring to passe his acte, his strange acte.
• John 9:29-34 : 29 We know that God spake with Moses: but this man we know not from whence he is. 30 The man answered, and sayde vnto them, Doutlesse, this is a marueilous thing, that ye know not whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes. 31 Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him heareth he. 32 Since the world began, was it not heard, that any man opened the eyes of one that was borne blinde. 33 If this man were not of God, hee could haue done nothing. 34 They answered, and sayd vnto him, Thou art altogether borne in sinnes, and doest thou teach vs? so they cast him out.
• John 9:39-41 : 39 And Iesus sayd, I am come vnto iudgement into this world, that they which see not, might see: and that they which see, might be made blinde. 40 And some of the Pharises which were with him, heard these things, & sayd vnto him, Are we blinde also? 41 Iesus sayd vnto them, If ye were blinde, ye should not haue sinne: but nowe ye say, We see: therefore your sinne remaineth.
• 1 Cor 1:19-24 : 19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisedome of the wise, and will cast away the vnderstanding of the prudent. 20 Where is the wise? where is the Scribe? where is the disputer of this worlde? hath not God made the wisedome of this worlde foolishnesse? 21 For seeing the worlde by wisedome knewe not God in the wisedome of GOD, it pleased God by the foolishnesse of preaching to saue them that beleeue: 22 Seeing also that the Iewes require a signe, and the Grecians seeke after wisdome. 23 But wee preach Christ crucified: vnto the Iewes, euen a stumbling blocke, and vnto the Grecians, foolishnesse: 24 But vnto them which are called, both of the Iewes and Grecians, we preach Christ, the power of God, and the wisedome of God.
• 1 Cor 3:19 : 19 For the wisdome of this worlde is foolishnesse with God: for it is written, He catcheth the wise in their owne craftinesse.
• Job 5:13 : 13 He taketh the wise in their craftinesse, and the counsel of the wicked is made foolish.
• Acts 28:26-27 : 26 Saying, Goe vnto this people, and say, By hearing ye shal heare, & shal not vnderstand, and seeing ye shall see, and not perceiue. 27 For the heart of this people is waxed fatte, and their eares are dull of hearing, and with their eyes haue they winked, least they shoulde see with their eyes, and heare with their eares, and vnderstand with their heartes, and should returne that I might heale them.
• Rom 1:21-22 : 21 Because that when they knewe God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankefull, but became vaine in their thoughtes, and their foolish heart was full of darkenesse. 22 When they professed themselues to be wise, they became fooles.
• Rom 1:28 : 28 For as they regarded not to acknowledge God, euen so God deliuered them vp vnto a reprobate minde, to doe those things which are not conuenient,
• Isa 29:9-9 : 9 Stay your selues, and wonder: they are blinde, and make you blinde: they are drunken but not with wine: they stagger, but not by strong drinke. 10 For the Lord hath couered you with a spirite of slumber, and hath shut vp your eyes: the Prophets, & your chiefe Seers hath he couered.
• Jer 8:7-9 : 7 Euen the storke in the aire knoweth her appointed times, and the turtle and the crane and the swallowe obserue the time of their comming, but my people knoweth not the iudgement of the Lorde. 8 Howe doe yee say, Wee are wise, and the Lawe of the Lorde is with vs? Loe, certeinly in vaine made hee it, the penne of the scribes is in vaine. 9 The wise men are ashamed: they are afraid and taken. loe, they haue reiected the word of the Lorde, and what wisdome is in them?
• Isa 19:3 : 3 And the spirite of Egypt shall faile in the middes of her, and I will destroy their counsell, and they shall seeke at the idoles, and at the sorcerers, and at them that haue spirits of diuination, and at the southsayers.
• Isa 19:11-14 : 11 Surely the princes of Zoan are fooles: the counsell of the wise counselers of Pharaoh is become foolish: how say ye vnto Pharaoh, I am the sonne of the wise? I am the sonne of the ancient Kings? 12 Where are nowe thy wise men, that they may tell thee, or may knowe what the Lorde of hostes hath determined against Egypt? 13 The princes of Zoan are become fooles: the princes of Noph are deceiued, they haue deceiued Egypt, euen the corners of the tribes thereof. 14 The Lorde hath mingled among them the spirite of errours: and they haue caused Egypt to erre in euery worke thereof, as a drunken man erreth in his vomite.
• Obad 1:8 : 8 Shall not I in that day, saith the Lorde, euen destroy the wise men out of Edom, and vnderstanding from the mount of Esau?
• Luke 10:24 : 24 For I tell you that many Prophets and Kings haue desired to see those things, which ye see, and haue not seene them: and to heare those things which ye heare, and haue not heard them.