New English Translation
Isaiah 42:23
23Who among you will pay attention to this? Who will listen attentively in the future?
Isaiah 42:23 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come?
- New International Version (NIV)Which of you will listen to this or pay close attention in time to come?
- English Standard Version (ESV)Who among you will give ear to this, will attend and listen for the time to come?
- New King James Version (NKJV)Who among you will give ear to this? Who will listen and hear for the time to come?
Context of Isaiah 42:23
21The Lord wanted to exhibit his justice by magnifying his law and displaying it. 22But these people are looted and plundered; all of them are trapped in pits and held captive in prisons. They were carried away as loot with no one to rescue them; they were carried away as plunder, and no one says, “Bring that back!” Who among you will pay attention to this? Who will listen attentively in the future? 24Who handed Jacob over to the robber? Who handed Israel over to the looters? Was it not the Lord, against whom we sinned? They refused to follow his commands; they disobeyed his law. 25So he poured out his fierce anger on them, along with the devastation of war. Its flames encircled them, but they did not realize it; it burned against them, but they did notice.
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מִ֥י בָכֶ֖ם יַאֲזִ֣ין זֹ֑את יַקְשִׁ֥ב וְיִשְׁמַ֖ע לְאָחֽוֹר׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Isaiah 42:23
- Isaiah 1:18Come, let’s consider your options,” says the Lord. “Though your sins have stained you like the color red, you can become white like snow; though they are as easy to see as the color scarlet, you can become white like wool.
- Isaiah 48:18If only you had obeyed my commandments, prosperity would have flowed to you like a river, deliverance would have come to you like the waves of the sea.
- Leviticus 26:40However, when they confess their iniquity and their ancestors’ iniquity which they committed by trespassing against me, by which they also walked in hostility against me
- Deuteronomy 4:29But if you seek the Lord your God from there, you will find him, if, indeed, you seek him with all your heart and soul.
- Deuteronomy 32:29I wish that they were wise and could understand this, and that they could comprehend what will happen to them.”
- Proverbs 1:22“How long will you simpletons love naiveté? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?
- Jeremiah 3:4Even now you say to me, ‘You are my father! You have been my faithful companion ever since I was young.
- Micah 6:9Listen! The Lord is calling to the city! It is wise to respect your authority, O Lord! Listen, O nation, and those assembled in the city!
- Matthew 21:28“What do you think? A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work in the vineyard today.’
- Acts 3:19Therefore repent and turn back so that your sins may be wiped out,
- 1 Peter 4:2in that he spends the rest of his time on earth concerned about the will of God and not human desires.
Commentaries on Isaiah 42:23
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 23Who among you will give ear to this? - Who is there in the nation that will be so warned by the judgments of God, that he will attend to the lessons which he designs to teach, and reform his life, and return to him? It is implied by these questions that such ought to be the effect; it is implied also that they were so sunken and abandoned that they would not do it. These judgments were a loud call on the nation to turn to God, and, in time to come, to…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 18-25Verses 18-25 Observe the call given to this people, and the character given of them. Multitudes are ruined for want of observing that which they cannot but see; they perish, not through ignorance, but carelessness. The Lord is well-pleased in the making known his own righteousness. For their sins they were spoiled of all their possessions. This fully came to pass in the destruction of the Jewish nation. There is no resisting, nor escaping God's anger. See…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 22-25Throughout its history, Israel's sins (Isaiah 42:24) made it vulnerable to foreign oppressors. Many nations, especially Assyria and Babylon, became tools God used to express his anger (Isaiah 42:25) toward his rebellious people.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2323. A call that they should be warned by the past judgments of God to obey Him for the time to come.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Isaiah 42
- 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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