Isaiah 42:23
21 The LORD was pleased, for the sake of His righteousness, to magnify His law and make it glorious.
22 But this is a people plundered and looted, all trapped in caves or imprisoned in dungeons. They have become plunder with no one to rescue them, and loot with no one to say, “Send them back!”
Who among you will pay attention to this? Who will listen and obey hereafter?
24 Who gave Jacob up for spoil, and Israel to the plunderers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned? They were unwilling to walk in His ways, and they would not obey His law.
25 So He poured out on them His furious anger and the fierceness of battle. It enveloped them in flames, but they did not understand; it consumed them, but they did not take it to heart.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- Who among you will pay attention to this? Who will listen and obey hereafter?
- KJV
- Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come?
- WEB
- Who is there among you who will give ear to this? Who will listen and hear for the time to come?
- ASV
- Who is there among you that will give ear to this? that will hearken and hear for the time to come?
- DARBY
- Who among you will give ear to this, [who] will hearken and hear what is to come?
- BLB
- Who among you⁺ will give ear to this? [Who] will listen and obey hereafter?
- ÅB
- Hvem blant dere vil heretter vende øret til dette, gi akt og høre på det?
- OTB
- Hvem blant dere vil høre dette? Hvem vil være oppmerksom og lytte for framtiden?
- B1930
- Hvem blandt eder vil herefter vende øret til dette, gi akt og høre på det?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Acts 3:22–23
For Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to Him in everything He tells you.
Read in contextIsaiah 48:18
If only you had paid attention to My commandments, your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like waves of the sea.
Read in contextLeviticus 26:40–42
But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me—
Read in contextMatthew 21:28–31
But what do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first one and said, ‘Son, go and work today in the vineyard.’
Read in contextDeuteronomy 4:29–31
But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Read in contextJeremiah 3:4–7
Have you not just called to Me, ‘My Father, You are my friend from youth.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 32:29
If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.
Read in contextJeremiah 3:13
Only acknowledge your guilt, that you have rebelled against the LORD your God. You have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every green tree and have not obeyed My voice,’” declares the LORD.
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