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Isaiah 29

Isa. 29:15 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Woe
howy (Hebrew #1945)
oh!
KJV usage: ah, alas, ho, O, woe.
Pronounce: hoh'ee
Origin: a prolonged form of 1930 (akin to 188)
unto them that seek deep
`amaq (Hebrew #6009)
to be (causatively, make) deep (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: (be, have, make, seek) deep(-ly), depth, be profound.
Pronounce: aw-mak'
Origin: a primitive root
to hide
cathar (Hebrew #5641)
to hide (by covering), literally or figuratively
KJV usage: be absent, keep close, conceal, hide (self), (keep) secret, X surely.
Pronounce: saw-thar'
Origin: a primitive root
a their counsel
`etsah (Hebrew #6098)
advice; by implication, plan; also prudence
KJV usage: advice, advisement, counsel(l-(or)), purpose.
Pronounce: ay-tsaw'
Origin: from 3289
from the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
, and their works
ma`aseh (Hebrew #4639)
an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property
KJV usage: act, art, + bakemeat, business, deed, do(-ing), labor, thing made, ware of making, occupation, thing offered, operation, possession, X well, ((handy-, needle-, net-))work(ing, - manship), wrought.
Pronounce: mah-as-eh'
Origin: from 6213
are in the dark
machshak (Hebrew #4285)
darkness; concretely, a dark place
KJV usage: dark(-ness, place).
Pronounce: makh-shawk'
Origin: from 2821
, and they say
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
, Whob seeth
ra'ah (Hebrew #7200)
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
KJV usage: advise self, appear, approve, behold, X certainly, consider, discern, (make to) enjoy, have experience, gaze, take heed, X indeed, X joyfully, lo, look (on, one another, one on another, one upon another, out, up, upon), mark, meet, X be near, perceive, present, provide, regard, (have) respect, (fore-, cause to, let) see(-r, -m, one another), shew (self), X sight of others, (e-)spy, stare, X surely, X think, view, visions.
Pronounce: raw-aw'
Origin: a primitive root
us? and who knoweth
yada` (Hebrew #3045)
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.) (as follow)
KJV usage: acknowledge, acquaintance(-ted with), advise, answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware, (un-)awares, can(-not), certainly, comprehend, consider, X could they, cunning, declare, be diligent, (can, cause to) discern, discover, endued with, familiar friend, famous, feel, can have, be (ig-)norant, instruct, kinsfolk, kinsman, (cause to let, make) know, (come to give, have, take) knowledge, have (knowledge), (be, make, make to be, make self) known, + be learned, + lie by man, mark, perceive, privy to, X prognosticator, regard, have respect, skilful, shew, can (man of) skill, be sure, of a surety, teach, (can) tell, understand, have (understanding), X will be, wist, wit, wot.
Pronounce: yaw-dah'
Origin: a primitive root
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Isa. 30:1• 1Woe to the rebellious children, saith Jehovah, who take counsel, but not of me, and who make leagues, but not by my Spirit, that they may heap sin upon sin; (Isa. 30:1)
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Psa. 139:7• 7Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? and whither flee from thy presence? (Psa. 139:7)
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Psa. 94:7• 7And say, Jah will not see, neither will the God of Jacob regard it. (Psa. 94:7)

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Isa. 5:18‑19• 18Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as with cart-ropes!
 19who say, Let him hasten, let him speed his work, that we may see it; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it! (Isa. 5:18‑19)
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Isa. 28:15,17• 15For ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol have we made an agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us; for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves.
 17And I will appoint judgment for a line, and righteousness for a plummet; and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding-place. (Isa. 28:15,17)
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Isa. 30:1• 1Woe to the rebellious children, saith Jehovah, who take counsel, but not of me, and who make leagues, but not by my Spirit, that they may heap sin upon sin; (Isa. 30:1)
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Job 22:13‑14• 13And thou sayest, What doth *God know? will he judge through the dark cloud?
 14Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh on the vault of the heavens. (Job 22:13‑14)
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Psa. 10:11‑13• 11He saith in his heart, *God hath forgotten, he hideth his face, he will never see it.
 12Arise, Jehovah; O *God, lift up thy hand: forget not the afflicted.
 13Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? He hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it. (Psa. 10:11‑13)
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Psa. 64:5‑6• 5They encourage themselves in an evil matter, they concert to hide snares; they say, Who will see them?
 6They devise iniquities: We have it ready, the plan is diligently sought out. And each one's inward thought and heart is deep. (Psa. 64:5‑6)
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Psa. 139:1‑8• 1To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David. Jehovah, thou hast searched me, and known me.
 2*Thou* knowest my down-sitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off;
 3Thou searchest out my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways;
 4For there is not yet a word on my tongue, but lo, O Jehovah, thou knowest it altogether.
 5Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thy hand upon me.
 6O knowledge too wonderful for me! it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
 7Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? and whither flee from thy presence?
 8If I ascend up into the heavens thou art there; or if I make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou art there; (Psa. 139:1‑8)
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Jer. 23:24• 24Can any hide himself in secret places, that I shall not see him? saith Jehovah. Do not I fill the heavens and the earth? saith Jehovah. (Jer. 23:24)
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Ezek. 8:12• 12And he said unto me, Hast thou seen, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every one in his chambers of imagery? for they say, Jehovah seeth us not; Jehovah hath forsaken the land. (Ezek. 8:12)
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Ezek. 9:9• 9And he said unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness; for they say, Jehovah hath forsaken the earth, and Jehovah seeth not. (Ezek. 9:9)
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Zeph. 1:12• 12And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and punish the men that are settled on their lees, that say in their heart, Jehovah will not do good, neither will he do evil. (Zeph. 1:12)
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Rev. 2:23• 23and her children will I kill with death; and all the assemblies shall know that *I* am he that searches the reins and the hearts; and I will give to you each according to your works. (Rev. 2:23)
and their works.
Job 24:13‑17• 13There are those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
 14The murderer riseth with the light, killeth the afflicted and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
 15And the eye of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me; and he putteth a covering on his face.
 16In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in; they know not the light:
 17For the morning is to them all as the shadow of death; for they are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death. (Job 24:13‑17)
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Job 34:22• 22There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves. (Job 34:22)
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Luke 12:1‑3• 1In those times, the myriads of the crowd being gathered together, so that they trod one on another, he began to say to his disciples first, Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy;
 2but there is nothing covered up which shall not be revealed, nor secret that shall not be known;
 3therefore whatever ye have said in the darkness shall be heard in the light, and what ye have spoken in the ear in chambers shall be proclaimed upon the housetops. (Luke 12:1‑3)
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John 3:19• 19And this is the judgment, that light is come into the world, and men have loved darkness rather than light; for their works were evil. (John 3:19)
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1 Cor. 4:5• 5So that do not judge anything before the time, until the Lord shall come, who shall also both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and shall make manifest the counsels of hearts; and then shall each have his praise from God. (1 Cor. 4:5)
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2 Cor. 4:2• 2But we have rejected the hidden things of shame, not walking in deceit, nor falsifying the word of God, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every conscience of men before God. (2 Cor. 4:2)
Who seeth.
Isa. 47:10• 10For thou hast confided in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath seduced thee; and thou hast said in thy heart, It is I, and there is none but me. (Isa. 47:10)
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Psa. 59:7• 7Behold, they belch out with their mouth; swords are in their lips: for who say they doth hear? (Psa. 59:7)
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Psa. 73:11• 11And they say, How can *God know, and is there knowledge in the Most High? (Psa. 73:11)
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Psa. 94:7‑9• 7And say, Jah will not see, neither will the God of Jacob regard it.
 8Understand, ye brutish among the people; and ye fools, when will ye be wise?
 9He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? He that formed the eye, shall he not see? (Psa. 94:7‑9)
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Mal. 2:17• 17Ye have wearied Jehovah with your words, and ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? In that ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of Jehovah, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment? (Mal. 2:17)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Woe unto them that hide deep, far from Jehovah, their counsel! And their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?