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Isaiah 29:15
Isaiah 29:15 is verse 15 of Isaiah chapter 29, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Woe to those who dig deep to hide their plans from the LORD. In darkness they do their works and say, “Who sees us, and who will know?”
King James Version
Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
World English Bible
Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from Yahweh, and whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us?” and “Who knows us?”
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Isaiah 29:13–17 · Berean Standard Bible
13 Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught by men.
14 Therefore I will again confound these people with wonder upon wonder. The wisdom of the wise will vanish, and the intelligence of the intelligent will be hidden.”
15 Woe to those who dig deep to hide their plans from the LORD. In darkness they do their works and say, “Who sees us, and who will know?”
16 You have turned things upside down, as if the potter were regarded as clay. Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, “He did not make me”? Can the pottery say of the potter, “He has no understanding”?
17 In a very short time, will not Lebanon become an orchard, and the orchard seem like a forest?
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Isaiah 5:18Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of deceit and pull sin along with cart ropes,
Isaiah 5:19to those who say, “Let Him hurry and hasten His work so that we may see it! Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel come so that we may know it!”
Isaiah 28:15For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.”
Isaiah 28:17I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the level. Hail will sweep away your refuge of lies, and water will flood your hiding place.
Isaiah 30:1“Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an alliance, but against My will, heaping up sin upon sin.
Job 22:13Yet you say: ‘What does God know? Does He judge through thick darkness?
Job 22:14Thick clouds veil Him so He does not see us as He traverses the vault of heaven.’
Psalms 10:11He says to himself, “God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees.”
Psalms 10:12Arise, O LORD! Lift up Your hand, O God! Do not forget the helpless.
Psalms 10:13Why has the wicked man renounced God? He says to himself, “You will never call me to account.”
Psalms 64:5They hold fast to their evil purpose; they speak of hiding their snares. “Who will see them?” they say.
Psalms 64:6They devise injustice and say, “We have perfected a secret plan.” For the inner man and the heart are mysterious.
Psalms 139:1O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
Psalms 139:2You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar.
Psalms 139:3You search out my path and my lying down; You are aware of all my ways.
Psalms 139:4Even before a word is on my tongue, You know all about it, O LORD.
Psalms 139:5You hem me in behind and before; You have laid Your hand upon me.
Psalms 139:6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
Psalms 139:7Where can I go to escape Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence?
Psalms 139:8If I ascend to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there.
Jeremiah 23:24“Can a man hide in secret places where I cannot see him?” declares the LORD. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the LORD.
Ezekiel 8:12“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? For they are saying, ‘The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the land.’”
Ezekiel 9:9He replied, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. The land is full of bloodshed, and the city is full of perversity. For they say, ‘The LORD has forsaken the land; the LORD does not see.’
Zephaniah 1:12And at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish the men settled in complacency, who say to themselves, ‘The LORD will do nothing, either good or bad.’
Revelation 2:23Then I will strike her children dead, and all the churches will know that I am the One who searches minds and hearts, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds.
Job 24:13Then there are those who rebel against the light, not knowing its ways or staying on its paths.
Job 24:14When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief.
Job 24:15The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight. Thinking, ‘No eye will see me,’ he covers his face.
Job 24:16In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in, never to experience the light.
Job 24:17For to them, deep darkness is their morning; surely they are friends with the terrors of darkness!
Job 34:22There is no darkness or deep shadow where the workers of iniquity can hide.
Luke 12:1In the meantime, a crowd of many thousands had gathered, so that they were trampling one another. Jesus began to speak first to His disciples: “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
Luke 12:2There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, and nothing hidden that will not be made known.
Luke 12:3What you have spoken in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the housetops.
John 3:19And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.
1 Corinthians 4:5Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of men’s hearts. At that time each will receive his praise from God.
2 Corinthians 4:2Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful ways. We do not practice deceit, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by open proclamation of the truth, we commend ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
Isaiah 47:10You were secure in your wickedness; you said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray; you told yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me.’
Psalms 59:7See what they spew from their mouths— sharp words from their lips: “For who can hear us?”
Psalms 73:11The wicked say, “How can God know? Does the Most High have knowledge?”
Psalms 94:7They say, “The LORD does not see; the God of Jacob pays no heed.”
Psalms 94:8Take notice, O senseless among the people! O fools, when will you be wise?
Psalms 94:9He who affixed the ear, can He not hear? He who formed the eye, can He not see?
Malachi 2:17You have wearied the LORD with your words; yet you ask, “How have we wearied Him?” By saying, “All who do evil are good in the sight of the LORD, and in them He delights,” or, “Where is the God of justice?”