Bible study: The wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish

King Sargon of Assyria had passed away and his son Sennacherib inherited the throne. The Kingdom of Israel had been sacked and many of its inhabitants deported to uncertain destinations years before by Assyria, and now the Kingdom of Judah under Hezekiah had made an alliance with the kingdom of Egypt.
Faced with this political situation in the Middle East, the prophet Isaiah explains in his oracles that men should not trust in political and military alliances but exclusively in the providence of the Lord: "Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight" Proverbs 3:5-6.
The Israelites had sinned against God and Assyria had become, according to the words of the prophet Isaiah in the Bible, an instrument of punishment, and like a hurricane that destroys everything in its path, the kingdom of Assyria had to accomplish with what was established by the providence of God.
The fundamental problem was that the sins of the Israelites had broken the relationship with God: "But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear" Isaiah 59:2.
This is how the prophet Isaiah denounces the decadence and corruption of the people before God, without true devotion to the Lord, the prophets lose their vision, the wise their wisdom, and the intelligent their intelligence:
"The Lord says: ´These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is based on merely human rules they have been taught. Therefore once more I will astound these people with wonder upon wonder; the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish´" Isaiah 29:13-14.

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