Isaiah Chapter 29 verse 20 Holy Bible
For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scoffer ceaseth, and all they that watch for iniquity are cut off;
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For the cruel one has come to nothing; and those who make sport of the Lord are gone; and those who are watching to do evil are cut off:
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For the terrible one shall come to nought, and the scorner shall be no more, and all that watch for iniquity shall be cut off,
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For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
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For the terrible one is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who watch for iniquity are cut off;
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For ceased hath the terrible one, And consumed hath been the scorner, And cut off have been all watching for iniquity,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 20. - The terrible one... the scorner. "The terrible one" may be the foreign enemy, as in ver. 5, or, possibly, the native oppressor (Isaiah 1:23; Isaiah 5:93, etc.) - a still more tearful evil. "The scorner" is the godless man, who scoffs at religion (Isaiah 28:14, 22). Both classes would be "consumed" and "brought to naught" when the new state of things was established. All that watch for iniquity; i.e. "all those who, for the furtherance of their iniquitous schemes, rise up early and late take rest, and eat the bread of carefulness" (Psalm 127:2).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(20) The terrible one.--The word stands, as in Isaiah 29:5, for the Assyrian invader; the "scorner," for the prophet's enemies who derided his message, and sought, "watching for iniquity," to find an accusation against him.
