Tree of Life Version
Isaiah 42:23
23Who among you will give ear to this? Who will listen and heed hereafter?
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
21Adonai was pleased, for the sake of His righteousness, to make Torah great and glorious. 22But this is a people robbed and looted. all of them trapped in holes, hidden away in prisons. They have become a prey with no one to deliver them, and plunder, with none to say, “Give them back!” Who among you will give ear to this? Who will listen and heed hereafter? 24Who gave Jacob to the looter, Israel to the plunderers? Was it not Adonai? Have we not sinned against Him? In His ways they were unwilling to walk and His Torah they did not obey. 25So He poured out on him the fury of His anger, and the fierceness of battle. it blazed all around him, yet he did not understand it. 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, let us reason together,” says Adonai. “Though your sins be like scarlet, they will be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they will become like wool.
- Isaiah 48:18If only you had listened to My commandments! then your peace would be like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
- Leviticus 26:40“But if they confess their iniquity and that of their fathers, in the treachery they committed against Me, and how they walked contrary to Me
- Deuteronomy 4:29But from there you will seek Adonai your God and you will find Him, when you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
- Deuteronomy 32:29“If they were wise, they would discern this, they would understand their hereafter.
- Proverbs 1:22“How long will you naïve ones love simplicity, you scoffers delight in scoffing, and you fools hate knowledge?
- Jeremiah 3:4Did you not just now call to Me: ‘Avi! You are a friend of my youth.
- Micah 6:9The voice of Adonai calls to the city— it is wisdom to fear Your Name— “Pay attention to the rod and to the One who appointed it.”
- Matthew 21:28“Now what do you think? A man had two sons, and he went to the first and said, ‘Son, go work in the vineyard today.’
- Acts 3:19Repent, therefore, and return—so your sins might be blotted out,
- 1 Peter 4:2As a result, he lives the rest of his time in the flesh no longer for human desires, but for God’s will.
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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