Isaiah 44:20
He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
KJV
Pars ejus cinis est ; cor insipiens adoravit illud, et non liberabit animam suam : neque dicet : Forte mendacium est in dextera mea.
Vulgate
γνῶθι ὅτι σποδὸς ἡ καρδία αὐτῶν, καὶ πλανῶνται, καὶ οὐδεὶς δύναται ἐξελέσθαι τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ· ἴδετε, οὐκ ἐρεῖτε ὅτι ψεῦδος ἐν τῇ δεξιᾷ μου.
LXX
He feedeth on ashes; a deceived heart hath turned him aside; and he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
ASV
רֹעֶ֣ה אֵ֔פֶר לֵ֥ב הוּתַ֖ל הִטָּ֑/הוּ וְ/לֹֽא יַצִּ֤יל אֶת נַפְשׁ/וֹ֙ וְ/לֹ֣א יֹאמַ֔ר הֲ/ל֥וֹא שֶׁ֖קֶר בִּ/ימִינִֽ/י
Hebrew
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12 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Themes
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4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
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Cross-references
- 1Cor 3:18 — Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
- 1Kgs 22:20 — And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one said on this manner, and another said on that manner.
- 1Kgs 22:23 — Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee.
- 1Tim 4:2 — Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
- 2Thess 2:9 — Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
- 2Thess 2:11 — And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
- 2Tim 2:13 — If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.
- 2Tim 3:13 — But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
- Deut 11:16 — Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
- Hab 2:18 — What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
- Heb 3:13 — But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
- Hos 4:12 — My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
- Hos 11:12 — Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints.
- Hos 12:1 — Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.
- Isa 28:15 — Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refug
- Isa 44:9 — They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
- Isa 44:18 — They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.
- Isa 47:10 — For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me.
- Isa 59:3 — For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
- Isa 59:13 — In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
- Jas 1:14 — But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
- Jas 1:22 — But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
- Jas 1:26 — If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.
- Jer 8:5 — Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
- Jer 16:19 — O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanit
- Job 15:2 — Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
- Job 15:31 — Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.
- Job 15:31 — Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.
- Judg 17:13 — Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.
- Luke 15:16 — And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.
- Luke 15:16 — And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.
- Prov 15:14 — The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.
- Ps 102:9 — For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
- Ps 144:8 — Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
- Ps 144:11 — Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:
- Rev 12:9 — And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
- Rev 13:14 — And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to
- Rev 18:23 — And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth;
- Rev 20:3 — And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loose
- Rom 1:20 — For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: