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Isa 29:14 — 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.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

I will		Isa 29:9; Isa 28:21; Hab 1:5; Jhn 9:29-34
proceed		Heb. add
for the wisdom		Isa 29:10; Isa 6:9,10; Isa 19:3,11-14; Job 5:13; Jer 8:7-9; Jer 49:7; Oba 1:8; Luk 10:24; Jhn 9:39-41; Act 28:26,27; Rom 1:21,22,28; 1Cr 1:19-24; 1Cr 3:19

Correlating Passages

I will

	Isa 29:9	Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
	Isa 28:21	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.
	Hab 1:5	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].
	Jhn 9:29	We know that God spake unto Moses: [as for] this [fellow], we know not from whence he is.
	Jhn 9:30	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.
	Jhn 9:31	Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.
	Jhn 9:32	Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind.
	Jhn 9:33	If this man were not of God, he could do nothing.
	Jhn 9:34	They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.

for the wisdom

	Isa 29:10	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.
	Isa 6:9	And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
	Isa 6:10	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 19:3	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	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?
	Isa 19:12	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.
	Isa 19:13	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.
	Isa 19:14	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.
	Job 5:13	He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
	Jer 8:7	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.
	Jer 8:8	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.
	Jer 8:9	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?
	Jer 49:7	Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; [Is] wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?
	Oba 1:8	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?
	Luk 10:24	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].
	Jhn 9:39	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.
	Jhn 9:40	And [some] of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also?
	Jhn 9:41	Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.
	Act 28:26	Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive:
	Act 28:27	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	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.
	Rom 1:22	Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
	Rom 1:28	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;
	1Cr 1:19	For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
	1Cr 1:20	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?
	1Cr 1:21	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.
	1Cr 1:22	For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
	1Cr 1:23	But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
	1Cr 1:24	But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
	1Cr 3:19	For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.

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