Isaiah 28:23

Perceive ye with ears, and hear ye my voice; perceive ye, and hear ye my speech. (Listen, and hear ye my voice; pay attention, yea, listen to me!)

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.

In Context

22And now do not ye scorn, lest peradventure your bonds be made strait together; for I heard of the Lord God of hosts, ending and abridging on all (the) earth. (And now do not ye mock, lest peradventure your bonds be made altogether strait, or tight; for I have heard from the Lord God of hosts, of the ending and the shortening, or destruction, of all the earth.)

24Whether he that eareth, shall ear all day, for to sow, and shall he carve (up), and purge his land? (Shall he who ploweth, plow every day, in order to sow, and to furrow, and to purge his land?)

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Cross References

Psalms 81:9a fresh God shall not be in thee; and thou shalt not worship an alien god. (there shall be no new god for thee; and thou shalt never worship any foreign, or strange, god.)

Jeremiah 22:29Earth, earth, earth, hear thou the word of the Lord. (O land, land, land, hear thou the words of the Lord.)

Revelation 2:11He that hath ears, hear he, what the Spirit saith to the churches. He that overcometh, shall not be hurt of the second death, (or He who shall overcome, shall not be hurt by the second death).

Revelation 2:29He that hath ears, hear he, what the Spirit saith to the churches.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 28:15-23

Judgments Announced; The Corner-stone in Zion. ( b. c. 725.) 14 Wherefore hear the word of the Lord , ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. 15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: 16 Therefore thus saith the Lord God , Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a… Read the whole commentary →

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