New King James Version
Isaiah 42:23
23Who among you will give ear to this? Who will listen and hear for the time to come?
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 Living Translation (NLT)Who will hear these lessons from the past and see the ruin that awaits you in the future?
Context of Isaiah 42:23
21The Lord is well pleased for His righteousness’ sake; He will exalt the law and make it honorable. 22But this is a people robbed and plundered; All of them are snared in holes, And they are hidden in prison houses; They are for prey, and no one delivers; For plunder, and no one says, “Restore!” Who among you will give ear to this? Who will listen and hear for the time to come? 24Who gave Jacob for plunder, and Israel to the robbers? Was it not the Lord, He against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in His ways, Nor were they obedient to His law. 25Therefore He has poured on him the fury of His anger And the strength of battle; It has set him on fire all around, Yet he did not know; And it burned him, Yet he did not take it to heart.
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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 1:18“Come now, and let us reason together,” Says the Lord, “Though your sins are like scarlet, They shall be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They shall be as wool.
- Isaiah 48:18Oh, that you had heeded My commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
- Leviticus 26:40‘But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, with their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, and that they also have walked contrary to Me,
- Deuteronomy 4:29But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
- Deuteronomy 32:29Oh, that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would consider their latter end!
- Proverbs 1:22“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? For scorners delight in their scorning, And fools hate knowledge.
- Jeremiah 3:4Will you not from this time cry to Me, ‘My Father, You are the guide of my youth?
- Micah 6:9The Lord’s voice cries to the city— Wisdom shall see Your name: “Hear the rod! Who has appointed it?
- Matthew 21:28“But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first and said, ‘Son, go, work today in my vineyard.’
- Acts 3:19Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,
- 1 Peter 4:2that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.
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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