Isaiah 42:23

Who among you gives ear [to] this? Attends, and hears afterward?

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come?

In Context

22And this [is] a people seized and spoiled, || Snared in holes—all of them, || And they were hidden in houses of restraint, || They have been for a prey, || And there is no deliverer, || A spoil, and none is saying, “Restore.”

24Who has given Jacob for a spoil, || And Israel to the spoilers? Is it not YHWH—He against whom we sinned? Indeed, they have not been willing to walk in His ways, || Nor have they listened to His law.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:29And you have sought your God YHWH from there, and have found [Him] when you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Proverbs 1:22“Until when, you simple, do you love simplicity? And have scorners desired their scorning? And do fools hate knowledge?

Isaiah 48:18O that you had attended to My commands, || Then your peace is as a river, || And your righteousness as billows of the sea,

Jeremiah 3:13Only, know your iniquity, || For you have transgressed against your God YHWH, || And you scatter your ways to strangers, || Under every green tree, || And you have not listened to My voice,” || A declaration of YHWH.

Matthew 21:28And what do you think? A man had two children, and having come to the first, he said, Child, go, today be working in my vineyard.

Acts 3:22For Moses, indeed, said to the fathers—The LORD your God will raise up a Prophet to you out of your brothers, like to me; you will hear Him in all things, as many as He may speak to you;

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 42:19-25

The Blindness of the Jews. ( b. c. 708.) 18 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see. 19 Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the Lord 's servant? 20 Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not. 21 The Lord is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable. 22 But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they… Read the whole commentary →

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