Isaiah 28 · Verse 29

Isaiah 28:29

This also cometh forth from the Lord of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.
Isaiah 28:29, King James Version

Isaiah 28:29 in other translations

BSBThis also comes from the LORD of Hosts, who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in wisdom.
WEBThis also comes out from the LORD of Armies, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.
ASVThis also cometh forth from Jehovah of hosts, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.
YLTEven this from Jehovah of Hosts hath gone out, He hath made counsel wonderful, He hath made wisdom great!
DARBYThis also cometh forth from Jehovah of hosts; he is wonderful in counsel, great in wisdom.
BBEThis comes from the Lord of armies, purposing wonders, and wise in all his acts.
WebsterThis also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in operation.

What does Isaiah 28:29 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
29. 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 utterly; "His judgments are usually in the line of our offenses; by the nature of the judgments we may usually ascertain the nature of the sin" [Barnes].

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 28:23-29

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…

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Isaiah 28:29 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

גַּם\־gam-alsoH1571
זֹ֕אתzotthisH2063
מֵעִ֛םme.'Imfrom withH5973
יְהוָ֥הYah.wehYahwehH3068
צְבָא֖וֹתtze.va.'otof hostsH6635
יָצָ֑אָהya.Tza.'ahit has gone outH3318
הִפְלִ֣יאhif.Li'he has made wonderfulH6381
עֵצָ֔ה'e.TzahcounselH6098
הִגְדִּ֖ילhig.Dilhe has made greatH1431
תּוּשִׁיָּֽה\׃\ \סtu.shi.Yahsound wisdomH8454

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Isaiah 28:29

  • Romans 11:33

    O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!

  • Job 5:9

    Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:

  • Jeremiah 32:19

    Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:

  • Isaiah 9:6

    For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

  • Psalms 92:5

    O Lord, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep.

  • Psalms 40:5

    Many, O Lord my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

  • Job 37:23

    Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.

  • Daniel 4:2-3

    I thought it good to shew the signs and wonders that the high God hath wrought toward me. How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders! his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation.

  • Isaiah 28:21-22

    For the Lord shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act. Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord God of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
cometh.
21,22; 9:6; Job 5:9; 37:23; Ps 40:5; 92:5; Jer 32:19; Da 4:2,3
Ro 11:33

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Isaiah 28:28

    Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.

  • Isaiah 28:29

    This also cometh forth from the Lord of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.

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Isaiah 28:29 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		También esto salió de Jehová de los ejércitos, para hacer maravilloso el consejo y engrandecer la sabiduría.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Cela aussi vient de l’ Éternel des armées: il se montre merveilleux en conseil et grand en sagesse.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Auch dieses geht aus von Jehova der Heerscharen; er ist wunderbar in seinem Rat, groß an Verstand.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Et hoc a Domino Deo exercituum exivit, ut mirabile faceret consilium, et magnificaret justitiam.