Isaiah 28:29

Isaiah 28:29 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)This also cometh forth from the Lord of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.
• New International Version (NIV)All this also comes from the Lord Almighty, whose plan is wonderful, whose wisdom is magnificent.
• New King James Version (NKJV)This also comes from the Lord of hosts, Who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in guidance.
• New Living Translation (NLT)The Lord of Heaven’s Armies is a wonderful teacher, and he gives the farmer great wisdom.

Context of Isaiah 28:29

27Dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge, nor is a cart wheel rolled over cumin, but dill is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod. 28Does one crush grain for bread? No, he does not thresh it forever; when he drives his cart wheel over it with his horses, he does not crush it. This also comes from the Lord of hosts; he is wonderful in counsel and excellent in wisdom.

Isaiah 28:29 word by word

גַּם־זֹ֕את מֵעִ֛ם יְהוָ֥ה צְבָא֖וֹת יָצָ֑אָה הִפְלִ֣יא עֵצָ֔ה הִגְדִּ֖יל תּוּשִׁיָּֽה׃ סRead the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• This also cometh forthיָצָאyâtsâ' · to come out: comeH3318
• from the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• of hostsצָבָאtsâbâ' tsebâ'âh · HostsH6635
• is wonderfulפָּלָאpâlâ' · to wonderH6381
• in counselעֵצָה‛êtsâh · counselH6098
• excellentגָּדַלgâdal · to magnifyH1431
• in workingתּוּשִׁיָּהtûshîyâh tûshîyâh · wisdomH8454

Cross-references for Isaiah 28:29

• Isaiah 28:21For the Lord will rise up as on Mount Perazim; as in the Valley of Gibeon he will be roused; to do his deed—strange is his deed! and to work his work—alien is his work!
• Isaiah 9:6For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
• Job 5:9who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number:
• Job 37:23The Almighty—we cannot find him; he is great in power; justice and abundant righteousness he will not violate.
• Psalms 40:5You have multiplied, O Lord my God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us; none can compare with you! I will proclaim and tell of them, yet they are more than can be told.
• Psalms 92:5How great are your works, O Lord! Your thoughts are very deep!
• Jeremiah 32:19great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of man, rewarding each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.
• Daniel 4:2It has seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has done for me.
• Romans 11:33Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!

Commentaries on Isaiah 28:29

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 29This also cometh … - That is, these various devices for threshing his grain comes from the Lord no less than the skill with which he tills his land. (see Isaiah 28:26). And excellent in working - Or rather, who magnifies (חגדיל chigdiyl ) his wisdom (תוּשׁיה tûshı̂yâh ). This word properly means wisdom, or understanding Job 11:6; Job 12:16; Job 26:3; Proverbs 3:21; Proverbs 8:14; Proverbs 18:1. The idea of the prophet is, that God, who had so wisely…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 23-29Verses 23-29 The husbandman applies to his calling with pains and prudence, in all the works of it according to their nature. Thus the Lord, who has given men this wisdom, is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in his working. As the occasion requires, he threatens, corrects, spares, shows mercy, or executes vengeance. Afflictions are God's threshing instruments, to loosen us from the world, to part between us and our chaff, and to prepare us for use. God…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 29wonderful in counsel (see Isaiah 9:6): God’s people should learn wisdom about God’s ways, as the farmer has done.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2929. This also--The skill wherewith the husbandman duly adjusts his modes of threshing is given by God, as well as the skill (Is 28:26) wherewith he tills and sows (Is 28:24, 25). Therefore He must also be able to adapt His modes of treatment to the several moral needs of His creatures. His object in sending tribulation (derived from the Latin tribulum, a "threshing instrument," Lu 22:31; Ro 5:3) is to sever the moral chaff from the wheat, not to crush…Read the comment

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Commentaries on Isaiah 28

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings