Isaiah 29:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:

Isaiah 29:20 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Micah 2:1
Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Isaiah 28:14-22
Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. …
Isaiah 29:5
Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.
Isaiah 13:3
I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.
Luke 16:14
And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.

Topics

Accusation, False Afflictions and Adversities Anger Bigotry Censoriousness Charitableness Church Citizens

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 17-24)

Those that thought to hide their counsels from the Lord were said to turn things upside down (Isa. 29:16), and they intended to do it unknown to God; but God here tells them that he will turn things upside down his way; and let us see whose word shall stand, his or theirs. They disbelieve Providence: “Wait awhile,” says God, “and you shall be convinced by ocular demonstration that there is a God w…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 20)

20. terrible--namely, the persecutors among the Jewish nobles. scorner--(Is 28:14, 22). watch for--not only commit iniquity, but watch for opportunities of committing it, and make it their whole study (see Mi 2:1; Mt 26:59; 27:1).