Quotes about Deception
as when a hungry man dreams he is eating, then awakens still hungry; as when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking, then awakens faint and parched. So will it be for all the many nations who go to battle against Mount Zion.
— Isaiah 29:8
Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught by men.
— Isaiah 29:13
Woe to those who dig deep to hide their plans from the LORD. In darkness they do their works and say, “Who sees us, and who will know?”
— Isaiah 29:15
But Pharaoh’s protection will become your shame, and the refuge of Egypt’s shade your disgrace.
— Isaiah 30:3
They say to the seers, “Stop seeing visions!” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us the truth! Speak to us pleasant words; prophesy illusions.
— Isaiah 30:10
The weapons of the scoundrel are destructive; he hatches plots to destroy the poor with lies, even when the plea of the needy is just.
— Isaiah 32:7
This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he cannot deliver you.
— Isaiah 36:14
“Give this message to Hezekiah king of Judah: ‘Do not let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you by saying that Jerusalem will not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
— Isaiah 37:10
See, they are all a delusion; their works amount to nothing; their images are as empty as the wind.
— Isaiah 41:29
Who fashions a god or casts an idol which profits him nothing?
— Isaiah 44:10
He feeds on ashes. His deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”
— Isaiah 44:20
They lift it to their shoulder and carry it along; they set it in its place, and there it stands, not budging from that spot. They cry out to it, but it does not answer; it saves no one from his troubles.
— Isaiah 46:7