Isaiah 29

Treated in 7 passages across the library.

The verses these writers stop at

  • 29:13 The Lord said: Since this people approaches me with words of the mouth and gives me honor with their lips while keeping their heart far from me, and the fear they show me is only a human rule learned by rote, 4
  • 29:6 The LORD of Armies will come to her with thunder, earthquake, and a mighty roar, with gale and tempest and the blaze of a fire that consumes. 1
  • 29:14 therefore I will once again deal with this people in astonishing ways, marvel after marvel. The wisdom of their wise will come to nothing, and the insight of their discerning will disappear from sight. 1
  • 29:16 How you turn everything on its head! Is the potter to be counted the same as the clay? Should the thing that was made say of its maker, "He did not make me"? Should the vessel say of the one who shaped it, "He has no sense"? 1
  • 29:21 those who make a person guilty with a single word, who set snares for the one who speaks up for justice in the gate, and with baseless claims turn the innocent away. 1

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Where it is preached

  1. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 3, Chapter 20 — Of Prayer cites Isaiah 29:13

    …mouth, and with their lips do honour me; but have removed their heart far from men” (Isaiah 29:13). Indeed, he does not confine this to prayers alone, but declares that he abominates…

  2. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    The Cause and Cure of Earthquakes cites Isa. 29:6

    …be visited of the Lord of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise.” (Isa. 29:6.) Nothing can be more express than these scripture testimonies, which determine both the…

  3. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.3 The Third Commandment cites Isa 29: 13

    …their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me.’ Isa 29: 13. (1) Hypocrites take God’s name in vain: their religion is a lie; they seem to honour…

  4. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.4 The Fourth Commandment cites Isa 29: 13

    …mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their hearts far from me.’ Isa 29: 13. This is to prevaricate and deal falsely with God. [3] Vain thoughts in hearing discover…

  5. Our Daily Walk · F. B. Meyer

    January cites Isa 29:16

    …thing made should say of Him that made it, He made me not, He hath no understanding.”— Isa 29:16 (R.V. marg.). WILL YOU let your Saviour frame your life and make it what He will? All…

  6. Holiness · J. C. Ryle

    Unsearchable Riches cites Isaiah xxix. 21

    …when Christ’s witnesses are silenced, or persecuted, and men hate him who reproveth. (Isaiah xxix. 21.) It was a solemn saying of the prophet to Amaziah: “Now I know that God hath determined…

  7. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 4, Chapter 10 — Of the Power of Making Laws cites Isaiah 29:13-14

    …of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid” (Isaiah 29:13-14). And in another place, “But in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the…