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Isa 44:25 — That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise [men] backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

frustrateth		Isa 47:12-14; 1Ki 22:11,12,22-25,37; 2Ch 18:11,34; Jer 27:9,10; Jer 28:9-17; Jer 50:36
maketh		Exd 9:11; Dan 1:20; Dan 2:10-12; Dan 4:7; Dan 5:6-8
turneth		Isa 19:11-14; Isa 29:14; 2Sa 15:31; 2Sa 16:23; 2Sa 17:23; Job 5:12-14; Psa 33:10; Jer 49:7; Jer 51:57; 1Cr 1:20-27; 1Cr 3:19,20

Correlating Passages

frustrateth

	Isa 47:12	Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.
	Isa 47:13	Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from [these things] that shall come upon thee.
	Isa 47:14	Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: [there shall] not [be] a coal to warm at, [nor] fire to sit before it.
	1Ki 22:11	And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron: and he said, Thus saith the LORD, With these shalt thou push the Syrians, until thou have consumed them.
	1Ki 22:12	And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramothgilead, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver [it] into the king's hand.
	1Ki 22:22	And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade [him], and prevail also: go forth, and do so.
	1Ki 22:23	Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee.
	1Ki 22:24	But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto thee?
	1Ki 22:25	And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see in that day, when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.
	1Ki 22:37	So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria.
	2Ch 18:11	And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramothgilead, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver [it] into the hand of the king.
	2Ch 18:34	And the battle increased that day: howbeit the king of Israel stayed [himself] up in [his] chariot against the Syrians until the even: and about the time of the sun going down he died.
	Jer 27:9	Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:
	Jer 27:10	For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land; and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish.
	Jer 28:9	The prophet which prophesieth of peace, when the word of the prophet shall come to pass, [then] shall the prophet be known, that the LORD hath truly sent him.
	Jer 28:10	Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and brake it.
	Jer 28:11	And Hananiah spake in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all nations within the space of two full years. And the prophet Jeremiah went his way.
	Jer 28:12	Then the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah [the prophet], after that Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying,
	Jer 28:13	Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt make for them yokes of iron.
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	Jer 50:36	A sword [is] upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword [is] upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.

maketh

	Exd 9:11	And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boil was upon the magicians, and upon all the Egyptians.
	Dan 1:20	And in all matters of wisdom [and] understanding, that the king enquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians [and] astrologers that [were] in all his realm.
	Dan 2:10	The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king's matter: therefore [there is] no king, lord, nor ruler, [that] asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean.
	Dan 2:11	And [it is] a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is none other that can shew it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.
	Dan 2:12	For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise [men] of Babylon.
	Dan 4:7	Then came in the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers: and I told the dream before them; but they did not make known unto me the interpretation thereof.
	Dan 5:6	Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
	Dan 5:7	The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. [And] the king spake, and said to the wise [men] of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and shew me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with scarlet, and [have] a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.
	Dan 5:8	Then came in all the king's wise [men]: but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation thereof.

turneth

	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.
	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.
	2Sa 15:31	And [one] told David, saying, Ahithophel [is] among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
	2Sa 16:23	And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counselled in those days, [was] as if a man had enquired at the oracle of God: so [was] all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.
	2Sa 17:23	And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled [his] ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
	Job 5:12	He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform [their] enterprise.
	Job 5:13	He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
	Job 5:14	They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
	Psa 33:10	The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
	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?
	Jer 51:57	And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise [men], her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name [is] the LORD of hosts.
	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.
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	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.
	1Cr 3:20	And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.

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Scott, Thomas. "Isaiah 44:25," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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