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Isaiah 29:13

Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:

Precept of men - instead of by the precepts of God, given by His prophets; also worship external, and by rule, not heartfelt worship, such as God requires (). Compare Christ's quotation of this verse, agreeing in the main with the Septuagint, Matthew 15:8,

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See also Isaiah 29:13 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 29:13. _THE LORD_ - "JEHOVAH"] For אדני _Adonai_, sixty-three MSS. of _Kennicott's_, and many of _De Rossi's_, and four editions, read יהוה _Yehovah_, and five MSS. add יהוה. _Kimchi_ m...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    WHEREFORE THE LORD SAID - This verse, with the following, is designed to denounce the divine judgment on their formality of worship. They kept up the forms of religion, but they witcheld the affection...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 29 The Second Woe Against Ariel and the Third Woe 1. _The fall of Ariel (Jerusalem) predicted (Isaiah 29:1)_ 2. _Their enemies dealt with by Jehovah (Isaiah 29:5)_ 3. The people's condition:...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THE LORD*. One of the 134 places where the _Sopherim_ say they changed Jehovah of the primitive text to Adonai. See App-32. SAID. Quoted in Matthew 15:7; Mark 7:6. BUT. though. TAUGHT BY THE PRECEPT...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _draw near_(i.e. worship) me _with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me_ A.V. is here unquestionably right against R.V., which slavishly follows the Hebrew accentuation, rendering, "draw nigh...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Isaiah 29:1-14. The announcement of Jehovah's wonderful purpose regarding Jerusalem, and its reception on the part of the people Under the second "Woe" (Isaiah 29:1) are grouped two oracles, which ma...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    This spiritual insensibility of the people is the outcome of its whole religious attitude, which is insincere, formal, and traditional. The contrast implied is that between a religion of mere ritual a...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    WHEREFORE THE LORD SAID— This second article is so connected with that preceding as to explain it. It contains the fault, Isaiah 29:13 and the punishment, Isaiah 29:14. Our prophet every where excelle...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    4. SULLENNESS TEXT: Isaiah 29:9-16 9 Tarry ye and wonder; take your pleasure and be blind: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. 10 For Jehovah hath poured...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    29:13 taught (c-36) Or 'learnt.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    WARNINGS TO JUDAH These Chapter s refer to the state of affairs during the reign of Hezekiah, when Palestine was threatened by Assyria, and an influential party in Judah favoured resistance, relying...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD CONTROLS THE FUTURE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 21 TO 30 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 29 THE FATE OF *JERUSALEM V1 *Woe to *Jerusalem, the city of David! It will not matt...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Beautiful smells in the Song always seem to refer to love. She describes many beautiful smells that remind her of him....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    The people’s religion has become a mere performance. It has lost all real meaning. HOPE FOR THE FUTURE V15 *Woe to those who try to hide from the *Lord the advice that they give. *Woe to those who...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    WHEREFORE THE LORD SAID... — We pass from the effect to the cause. The blind stupor was the outcome of a long hypocrisy. Lip-homage and an estranged heart had been the notes of the religious life of I...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר אֲדֹנָ֗י יַ֚עַן כִּ֤י נִגַּשׁ֙ הָ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    BOOK 3 ORATIONS ON THE EGYPTIAN INTRIGUES AND ORACLES ON FOREIGN NATIONS 705-702 B.C. Isaiah: 29 About 703 30 A little later 31 A little later 32:1-8 Later 32:9-20 Date uncertain ------------...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    This is the first of a series of declamations concerning the chosen people, and sets forth the purpose of Jehovah in judgment. The message opens with a description of the judgment (verses Isa 29:1-4),...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people (k) draw near [me] with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their (l) fear toward me is taugh...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Men. Our Saviour applies this to the Jews. The evangelists follow the Septuagint, Matthew xv. 8., and Mark vii. 6. (Calmet) --- "This people approacheth to me, (Grabe adds, with its mouth and with) t...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Here are the same, or similar denunciations, as have been before noticed. God's judgments for men's rebellion. And what makes the whole most awful, is, that those judgments and punishments remain unsa...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    13._Therefore the Lord saith. _The Prophet shews that the Lord, in acting with such severity towards his people, will proceed on the most righteous grounds; though it was a severe and dreadful chastis...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Jerusalem is reduced to the last extremity. But this time Jehovah appears for her deliverance, and the multitude of her enemies disappear as a dream of the night. Everything is dark and gloomy as to t...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    WHEREFORE THE LORD SAID,.... Concerning the hypocritical people of the Jews in Christ's time, as the words are applied by our Lord himself, Matthew 15:7: FORASMUCH AS THIS PEOPLE DRAW NEAR TO [ME] WI...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near [me] with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Forasmuch as this people draw near_ to _me_ Namely, in acts of worship; _with their mouth_ Speaking to me in prayer and praise, and promising and professing to serve me; _and with their lips do honou...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE COUNSEL OF GOD...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people, the men of the Southern Kingdom, the children of Judah, DRAW NEAR ME WITH THEIR MOUTH AND WITH THEIR LIPS DO HONOR ME, in a mere outward form of wors...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    9-16 The security of sinners in sinful ways, is cause for lamentation and wonder. The learned men, through prejudice, said that the Divine prophecies were obscure; and the poor urged their want of le...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    DRAW NEAR ME, to wit, in acts of worship, WITH THEIR MOUTH AND WITH THEIR LIPS; with outward devotions, and the profession of religion. BUT HAVE REMOVED THEIR HEART FAR FROM ME; they do not pay me tha...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 29:13 Lord H136 said H559 (H8799) Inasmuch H3282 people H5971 near H5066 (H8738) mouths H6310 honor...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    GOD'S RESPONSE TO AND VERDICT ON THEIR UNBELIEF (ISAIAH 29:13). Isaiah 29:13 ‘And the Lord said, “Forasmuch as these people draw near to me with their mouth, And honour me with their lips, But ha...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE UNBELIEVING RESPONSE OF THE MAJORITY TO GOD (ISAIAH 29:9). There are at least two ways of looking at this passage. One is to see it as Isaiah's words prior to God's amazing deliverance, seeking to...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Warnings to Judah and Jerusalem of impending discipline. The blessing after the final deliverance. CHARACTERS: God, David, Abraham. CONCLUSION: Those who are formal and hypocritical in the...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 29:1. _Woe to Ariel,_ the lion of God, or the strong lion, for _El_ is often rendered _strong_ or _rock,_ as in Psalms 42:9. “God my rock.” The city of Jerusalem was that strong rock, or strong...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _This people draw near Me with their mouth_ RITUALISM When any form so obtrudes itself as to be a hindrance instead of a help to the worshipper, that is ritualism. (_Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone._) FO...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 29:13 HONOR ME WITH THEIR LIPS. Outwardly proper worship offends God if it is not motivated by faith (which is why Jesus quotes v. Isaiah 29:13

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    LIP-SERVICE INSTEAD OF HEART-WORSHIP Isaiah 29:13. _Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near to Me with their mouth, &c._ The charge against the people is clear; it is that of a he...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ISAIAH 29:1 A WARNING TO JERUSALEM. Expostulation is followed by threats. The prophet is aware that all his preaching to the authorities in Jerusalem (Isaiah 28:14) will be of no avail, an...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Chapter 29, the woe unto Jerusalem. Ariel means the lion of God. It is one of the names for Jerusalem. Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, [the lion of God] the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let th...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Chronicles 31:21; Colossians 2:22; Ezekiel 33:31; Isaiah 10:6;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Draw near — Namely, in acts of worship. With lips — With outward devotions. But — They do not pay me that love, and fear, and obedience, which I require. And — They worship me not in such a manner, as...

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