Isaiah 42:23
What does Isaiah 42:23 mean?
A plain-English look at Isaiah 42:23 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Who is there among you that will give ear to this? that will hearken and hear for the time to come?
KJV
King James Version · 1611Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come?
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Who is there among you that will give ear to this? that will hearken and hear for the time to come?
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Who is there among you who will give ear to this? who will give attention to it for the time to come?
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Who among you giveth ear <FI>to<Fi> this? Attendeth, and heareth afterwards.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Who is there among you that will give ear to this, that will attend and hearken for times to come?
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Who among you will give ear to this, [who] will hearken and hear what is to come?
Context
v.22But this is a people robbed and plundered; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison-houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
v.23This passage
v.24Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not Jehovah? he against whom we have sinned, and in whose ways they would not walk, neither were they obedient unto his law.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Isaiah 48:18
Oh that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:
- Isaiah 1:18
Come now, and let us reason together, saith Jehovah: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
- Acts 3:22
Moses indeed said, A prophet shall the Lord God raise up unto you from among your brethren, like unto me; to him shall ye hearken in all things whatsoever he shall speak unto you.
- 1 Peter 4:2
that ye no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
- Leviticus 26:40
And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary unto me,
- Deuteronomy 4:29
But from thence ye shall seek Jehovah thy God, and thou shalt find him, when thou searchest after him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
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