English Standard Version
Isaiah 28:23
23Give ear, and hear my voice; give attention, and hear my speech.
Isaiah 28:23 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.
- New International Version (NIV)Listen and hear my voice; pay attention and hear what I say.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Give ear and hear my voice, Listen and hear my speech.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Listen to me; listen, and pay close attention.
Context of Isaiah 28:23
21For the Lord will rise up as on Mount Perazim; as in the Valley of Gibeon he will be roused; to do his deed—strange is his deed! and to work his work—alien is his work! 22Now therefore do not scoff, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord God of hosts against the whole land. Give ear, and hear my voice; give attention, and hear my speech. 24Does he who plows for sowing plow continually? Does he continually open and harrow his ground? 25When he has leveled its surface, does he not scatter dill, sow cumin, and put in wheat in rows and barley in its proper place, and emmer as the border?
Read all of Isaiah 28Isaiah 28:23 word by word
הַאֲזִ֥ינוּ וְשִׁמְע֖וּ קוֹלִ֑י הַקְשִׁ֥יבוּ וְשִׁמְע֖וּ אִמְרָתִֽי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Isaiah 28:23
- Isaiah 1:2Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: "Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me.
- Deuteronomy 32:1"Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak, and let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
- Jeremiah 22:29O land, land, land, hear the word of the Lord!
- Revelation 2:7He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.'
Commentaries on Isaiah 28:23
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 23Give ye ear, and hear my voice "Listen ye, and hear my voice" - The foregoing discourse, consisting of severe reproofs, and threatenings of dreadful judgments impending on the Jews for their vices, and their profane contempt of God's warnings by his messengers, the prophet concludes with an explanation and defense of God's method of dealing with his people in an elegant parable or allegory; in which he employs a variety of images, all taken from the…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 23Give ye ear - In this verse the prophet introduces an important and striking illustration drawn from the science of agriculture. It is connected with the preceding part of the chapter, and is designed to show the propriety of what the prophet had said by an appeal to what they all observed in the cultivation of their lands. The previous discourse consists mainly of reproofs and of threatenings of punishment on God‘s people for their profane contempt of…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 23-29Verses 23-29 The husbandman applies to his calling with pains and prudence, in all the works of it according to their nature. Thus the Lord, who has given men this wisdom, is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in his working. As the occasion requires, he threatens, corrects, spares, shows mercy, or executes vengeance. Afflictions are God's threshing instruments, to loosen us from the world, to part between us and our chaff, and to prepare us for use. God…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 23Listen: he analogy that follows was written as a wisdom poem, with Isaiah calling on his audience to pay careful attention and to discern what is right.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2323. Calling attention to the following illustration from husbandry (Psa 49:1, 2). As the husbandman does his different kinds of work, each in its right time and due proportion, so God adapts His measures to the varying exigencies of the several cases: now mercy, now judgments; now punishing sooner, now later (an answer to the scoff that His judgments, being put off so long, would never come at all, Is 5:19); His object being not to destroy His people any…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Isaiah 28
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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