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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Isaiah 29:12

The vision of all; of all your prophets, whether the true or false ones. As the words of a book that is sealed; in which no man can read whilst it is scaled up, as books then sometimes were, 1 Kings 21:8 Esther 3:12,13, being made in the form of rolls, which was convenient for that purpose. The book is delivered to him that is not learned; unsealed and opened, as the following clause implies. God so orders the manner of delivering this book, that neither the learned nor unlearned could read and understand it.

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See also Isaiah 29:12 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND THE BOOK IS DELIVERED ... - That is, they are just as ignorant of the true nature and meaning of the revelations of God as a man is of the contents of a book who is utterly unable to read....

  • 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:...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    The people are stupefied, for Yahweh has drenched their senses with a trance-slumber (Genesis 2:21 *). He has shut their eyes and muffled their heads. All alike fail to understand the prophetic vision...

  • 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

    The people meet their doom in a state of spiritual stupor, unobservant of Jehovah's work, and heedless of the warnings given to them....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    A distinction is drawn between the ignorance of the educated and that of the uneducated classes. The man of culture is like one who _will_not break the seal of a sealed book that he may read it; the m...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND THE VISION, &C.— These words set forth the consequence of the common blindness of the whole Jewish nation, learned and unlearned, teacher and people; namely, their universal incapacity to interpre...

  • 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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned. HE SAITH, I AM NOT LEARNED. The unlearned succeed no better than the learned, n...

  • 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

    God had appointed Isaiah to speak for him. But at the same time, God warned Isaiah that people would not listen (see Isaiah 6:9-10). His eyes are so beautiful that they seem like precious stones....

  • 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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ נִתַּ֣ן הַ סֵּ֗פֶר עַל֩ אֲשֶׁ֨ר לֹֽא

  • 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),...

  • 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...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _THE SEALED BOOK_ ‘And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; fo...

  • 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

    AND THE BOOK IS DELIVERED TO HIM THAT IS NOT LEARNED,.... Or that knows not a book or letters, as before, and so consequently cannot read, having never been put to school, or learned to read: SAYING,...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned. Ver. 12. _And the book is delivered to one that is not learned._] Heb., Knoweth n...

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

    _And the vision of all_ Of all your prophets, or every vision; _is unto you as the words of a book that is sealed_ Which no man can read while it is sealed up, as books then sometimes were, being in t...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE WOE UPON ARIEL...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    and the book is delivered to him that is not learned, an illiterate person, SAYING, READ THIS, I PRAY THEE; AND HE SAITH, I AM NOT LEARNED. In either event, the writing will not be revealed, the teach...

  • 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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 29:12 book H5612 delivered H5414 (H8738) illiterate H3045 (H8804) H5612 saying H559 (H8800) Read...

  • 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...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 29:11 I. There is something of truth in the representation that the Bible is a sealed book. We always regard it as a standing proof of the Divine origin of the volume, that it is not to be unfo...

  • 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

    _The vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed_ THE UNIVERSALITY OF SPIRITUAL BLINDNESS What is affirmed in these verses holds so strikingly true of God’s general revela...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Stay yourselves, and wonder, they are drunken, but not with wine_ SPIRITUAL DRUNKENNESS By spiritual drunkenness (Isaiah 29:9) we are probably to understand unsteadiness of conduct and a want of sp...

  • 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

    Hosea 4:6; Isaiah 28:12; Isaiah 28:13; Isaiah 29:18; Jeremiah 5:4;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Of all — Of all, your prophets. As a book — In which no man can read, while it is sealed up, as books then sometimes were, being made in the form of rolls. Delivered — Unsealed and opened....

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