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the Week of Proper 16 / Ordinary 21
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Isaiah 42:23

Who among you will pay attention to this? Who will listen attentively in the future?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Impenitence;   Isaiah;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Isaiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Election;   Micah, Book of;   Righteousness;   Servant of the Lord;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Reed;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Poetry;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Who among you will hear this?Let him listen and obey in the future.
Hebrew Names Version
Who is there among you who will give ear to this? who will listen and hear for the time to come?
King James Version
Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come?
English Standard Version
Who among you will give ear to this, will attend and listen for the time to come?
New American Standard Bible
Who among you will listen to this? Who will pay attention and listen in the time to come?
New Century Version
Will any of you listen to this? Will you listen carefully in the future?
Amplified Bible
Who among you will listen to this? Who will listen and pay attention in the time to come?
World English Bible
Who is there among you who will give ear to this? who will listen and hear for the time to come?
Geneva Bible (1587)
Who among you shall hearken to this, and take heede, and heare for afterwardes?
Legacy Standard Bible
Who among you will give ear to this?Who will give heed and hear hereafter?
Berean Standard Bible
Who among you will pay attention to this? Who will listen and obey hereafter?
Contemporary English Version
Why won't his people ever learn to listen?
Complete Jewish Bible
Which of you will listen to this? Who will hear and give heed in the times to come?
Darby Translation
Who among you will give ear to this, [who] will hearken and hear what is to come?
Easy-to-Read Version
Will any of you pay attention to this warning? Will you ever learn to listen?
George Lamsa Translation
Who among you will give ear to this? Who will hearken to the other counsel?
Good News Translation
Will any of you listen to this? From now on will you listen with care?
Lexham English Bible
Who among you will heed this, will listen attentively and listen, for the time to come?
Literal Translation
Who among you will give ear to this, will listen and hear for the time to come?
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But who is he amonge you, yt pondreth this in his mynde, yt considreth it, & taketh it for a warnynge in tyme to come?
American Standard Version
Who is there among you that will give ear to this? that will hearken and hear for the time to come?
Bible in Basic English
Who is there among you who will give ear to this? who will give attention to it for the time to come?
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Who among you will give ear to this? Who will hearken and hear for the time to come?
King James Version (1611)
Who among you will giue eare to this? who will hearken, and heare for the time to come?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But who is he among you that pondereth this, that considereth it, and taketh it for a warning in tyme to come?
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Who is there among you that will give ear to these things? hearken ye to the things which are coming to pass.
English Revised Version
Who is there among you that will give ear to this? that will hearken and hear for the time to come?
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Who is among you, that herith this, perseyueth, and herkneth thingis to comynge?
Update Bible Version
Who is there among you that will give ear to this? that will listen and hear for the time to come?
Webster's Bible Translation
Who among you will give ear to this? [who] will hearken, and hear for the time to come?
New King James Version
Who among you will give ear to this? Who will listen and hear for the time to come?
New Living Translation
Who will hear these lessons from the past and see the ruin that awaits you in the future?
New Life Bible
Who among you will hear this? Who will listen and hear in the future?
New Revised Standard
Who among you will give heed to this, who will attend and listen for the time to come?
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Who among you, will give ear to this, - Let him hearken and hear, for an aftertime?
Douay-Rheims Bible
Who is there among you that will give ear to this, that will attend and hearken for times to come?
Revised Standard Version
Who among you will give ear to this, will attend and listen for the time to come?
Young's Literal Translation
Who among you giveth ear [to] this? Attendeth, and heareth afterwards.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Who among you will give ear to this? Who will give heed and listen hereafter?

Contextual Overview

18 "Listen, you deaf ones! Take notice, you blind ones! 19 My servant is truly blind, my messenger is truly deaf. My covenant partner, the servant of the Lord , is truly blind. 20 You see many things, but don't comprehend; their ears are open, but do not hear." 21 The Lord wanted to exhibit his justice by magnifying his law and displaying it. 22 But 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!" 23 Who among you will pay attention to this? Who will listen attentively in the future? 24 Who 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. 25 So 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 not notice.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

will give: Isaiah 1:18-20, Isaiah 48:18, Leviticus 26:40-42, Deuteronomy 4:29-31, Deuteronomy 32:29, Proverbs 1:22, Proverbs 1:23, Jeremiah 3:4-7, Jeremiah 3:13, Micah 6:9, Matthew 21:28-31, Acts 3:19, Acts 3:22, Acts 3:23, 1 Peter 4:2, 1 Peter 4:3

time to come: Heb. after-time

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 24:19 - but they would Isaiah 44:1 - now Isaiah 44:21 - Remember Jeremiah 6:10 - their ear Jeremiah 13:15 - and Jeremiah 26:4 - If Jeremiah 35:13 - Will

Cross-References

Genesis 42:13
They replied, "Your servants are from a family of twelve brothers. We are the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is with our father at this time, and one is no longer alive."
Genesis 42:14
But Joseph told them, "It is just as I said to you: You are spies!
2 Corinthians 5:20
Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making His plea through us. We plead with you on Christ's behalf, "Be reconciled to God!"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Who among you will give ear to this?.... To this prophecy of your destruction, and to what follows concerning it:

who will hearken and hear for the time to come? and receive instruction from hence, and repent and reform? none at all; so blind, and deaf, and stupid, were they both before, and at their destruction, and even ever since; they take no notice of the hand of God upon them, nor hearken to the rod, any more than to the word of God; which seems to be what is meant by "the time to come", or "hereafter"; and this will be their case till the veil is taken away, and then they shall see and hear, and turn to the Lord.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Who 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 avoid the sins which had made it necessary for him to interpose in this manner, and give them to spoil.


 
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