Isaiah 29:14

King James Version 1611 (Original)

Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for 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 heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.
• Jer 49:7 : 7 Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD 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 convert, and be healed.
• Isa 28:21 : 21 For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall 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 spake unto Moses: as for this fellow, we know not from whence he is. 30 The man answered and said unto them, Why herein is a marvellous thing, that ye know not from 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 he heareth. 32 Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind. 33 If this man were not of 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 I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind. 40 And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also? 41 Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.
• 1 Cor 1:19-24 : 19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. 20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. 22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: 23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; 24 But unto them which 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 taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
• Job 5:13 : 13 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
• Acts 28:26-27 : 26 Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive: 27 For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
• Rom 1:21-22 : 21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
• Rom 1:28 : 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
• Isa 29:9-9 : 9 Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. 10 For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.
• Jer 8:7-9 : 7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD. 8 How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain. 9 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?
• Isa 19:3 : 3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
• Isa 19:11-14 : 11 Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise 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 are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt. 13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof. 14 The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.
• Obad 1:8 : 8 Shall I not in that day, saith the LORD, even destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau?
• Luke 10:24 : 24 For I tell you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.