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The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible
Isaiah 28:23
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Listen and hear my voice.Pay attention and hear what I say.
Give you ear, and hear my voice; listen, and hear my speech.
Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.
Give ear, and hear my voice; give attention, and hear my speech.
Listen and hear my voice, Pay attention and hear my words.
Listen closely to what I tell you; listen carefully to what I say.
Listen and hear my voice; Listen carefully and hear my words.
Give you ear, and hear my voice; listen, and hear my speech.
Hearken ye, and heare my voyce: hearken ye, and heare my speach.
Give ear and hear my voice,Pay attention and hear my words.
Pay close attention to what I am saying.
Listen and hear my voice; pay attention, and hear what I say:
Give ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.
Listen closely to the message I am telling you.
Give ear and hear my voice; hearken and hear my speech.
Listen to what I am saying; pay attention to what I am telling you.
Listen, and hear my voice! Listen attentively, and hear my word!
Give ear and hear My voice; pay attention and hear My Word:
Take hede, and heare my voyce, pondre and merck my wordes wel.
Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.
Let your ears be open to my voice; give attention to what I say.
Give ye ear, and hear my voice; attend, and hear my speech.
Giue yee eare, and heare my voyce, hearken and heare my speach.
Heare ye then, and hearken vnto my voyce, consider and ponder my speache.
Hearken, and hear my voice; attend, and hear my words.
Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.
Perseyue ye with eeris, and here ye my vois; perseyue ye, and here ye my speche.
Give ear, and hear my voice; listen, and hear my speech.
Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.
Pay attention and listen to my message! Be attentive and listen to what I have to say!
Give ear and hear my voice, Listen and hear my speech.
Listen to me; listen, and pay close attention.
Listen and hear my voice. Listen and hear my words.
Listen, and hear my voice; Pay attention, and hear my speech.
Give ear, and hear ye my voice, - Hearken, and hear ye my speech: -
Give ear, and hear my voice, hearken, and hear my speech.
Give ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.
Give ear, and hear my voice, Attend, and hear my saying:
Listen to me now. Give me your closest attention. Do farmers plow and plow and do nothing but plow? Or harrow and harrow and do nothing but harrow? After they've prepared the ground, don't they plant? Don't they scatter dill and spread cumin, Plant wheat and barley in the fields and raspberries along the borders? They know exactly what to do and when to do it. Their God is their teacher.
Give ear and hear my voice, Listen and hear my words.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Isaiah 1:2, Deuteronomy 32:1, Jeremiah 22:29, Revelation 2:7, Revelation 2:11, Revelation 2:14, Revelation 2:29
Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 24:19 - but they would Isaiah 32:9 - give ear Isaiah 46:12 - Hearken Mark 4:3 - there
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Give ye ear, and hear my voice,.... So said the prophet, as the Targum introduces the words; and because what he was about to say was of importance, and delivered in a parabolical manner, and required attention, he makes use of a variety of words to the same purpose, to engage their attention:
hearken, and hear my speech; now about to be made; listen to it, and get the understanding of it.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Give 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 the messengers of God. He had threatened to destroy their nation, and so remove them for a time to a distant land. This the prophet had himself said Isaiah 28:21 was his ‘strange work.’ To vindicate this and to show the propriety “of God’s adopting every measure, and of not always pursuing the same course in regard to his people,” he draws an illustration from the farmer. He is not always doing the same thing. He adopts different methods to secure a harvest.
He adapts his plans to the soil and to the kind of grain; avails himself of the best methods of preparing the ground, sowing the seed, collecting the harvest, and of separating the grain from the chaff. He does not always plow; nor always sow; nor always thresh. He does not deal with all kinds of land and grain in the same way. Some land he plows in one mode, and some in another; and in like manner, some grain he threshes in one mode, and some in another - adapting his measures to the nature of the soil, and of the grain. Some grain he beats out with a flail; some he bruises; but yet he will be careful not to break the kernel, or destroy it in threshing it. However severe may appear to be his blows, yet his object is not to crush and destroy it Isaiah 28:28, but it is to remove it from the chaff, and to save it. In all this he acts the part of wisdom, for God has taught him what to do Isaiah 28:26, Isaiah 28:29. So, says the prophet, God will not deal with all of his people in the same manner, nor with them always in the same mode. He will vary his measures as a farmer does. When mild and gentle measures will do, he will adopt them. When severe measures are necessary, he will resort to them. His object is not to destroy his people, anymore than the object of the farmer in threshing is to destroy his grain. The general dedicate the propriety of God’s engaging in what the prophet calls his ‘strange act,’ and ‘strange work,’ in punishing his people. The allegory is one of great beauty, and its pertinency and keeping are maintained throughout; and it furnishes a most important practical lesson in regard to the mode in which God deals with his people.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Isaiah 28:23. Give 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 defence 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 science of agriculture. As the husbandman uses various methods in preparing his land, and adapting it to the several kinds of seeds to be sown, with a due observation of times and seasons; and when he hath gathered in his harvest, employs methods as various in separating the corn from the straw and the chaff by different instruments, according to the nature of the different sorts of grain; so God, with unerring wisdom, and with strict justice, instructs, admonishes, and corrects his people; chastises and punishes them in various ways, as the exigence of the case requires; now more moderately, now more severely; always tempering justice with mercy; in order to reclaim the wicked, to improve the good, and, finally, to separate the one from the other.
