Comentario sobre Isaías 29:14

Therefore, I will continue I am He Who will continue to perform additional obscurity upon obscurity, concealment upon concealment, sealing upon sealing. And what is this obscurity upon obscurity? And the wisdom of their wise men shall be lost. The taking away of the sages of Israel is twice as hard as the destruction of the Temple and all the curses in Deuteronomy, for all of them are only one obscurity, as it is said (Deut. 28:59): “And the Lord shall make your plagues obscure (וְהִפְלָא),” whereas here are two obscurities.

הנני יוסיף Behold I will proceed, comp. ונשאר אני and I am left (Ez. 9:8); אמלל אני I am withering (Ps. 6:3); אמלל is the third person past, because of the Pathah under ל. Some explain יוסיף to be a participle like תומיך supporting²²יוסיף is either the third person future of the Hiphil, and strangely joined with the pronoun of the first person, as in the other instances quoted by I.E., or participle Kal of יסף, formed like תּוׄמִי with Hirek instead of Zere in the second syllable. (Ps. 16:5).

להפליא את העם הזח הפלא ופלא To be very embarrassing to this people,²³A. V., To do a marvellous work among this people. that they shall not understand, that the wisdom of the wise shall be lost, etc. Others explain this phrase thus: To do a marvellous work among this people; comp. עשה פלא who performs wonders (Ex. 15:11). I explain it in the following way: To do to this people a wonderful thing like this.²⁴That the wisdom of the wise shall be lost, etc.