Isaiah 42 · Verse 23

Isaiah 42:23

Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come?
Isaiah 42:23, King James Version

Isaiah 42:23 in other translations

BSBWho among you will pay attention to this? Who will listen and obey hereafter?
WEBWho is there among you who will give ear to this? Who will listen and hear for the time to come?
ASVWho is there among you that will give ear to this? that will hearken and hear for the time to come?
YLTWho among you giveth ear to this? Attendeth, and heareth afterwards.
DARBYWho among you will give ear to this, who will hearken and hear what is to come?
BBEWho is there among you who will give ear to this? who will give attention to it for the time to come?
WebsterWho among you will give ear to this? who will hearken, and hear for the time to come?

What does Isaiah 42:23 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
23. A call that they should be warned by the past judgments of God to obey Him for the time to come.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 42:18-25

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…

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Isaiah 42:23 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

מִ֥יmiwho?H4310
בָכֶ֖םva.Khemamong you
יַאֲזִ֣יןya.'a.Zinwill he give ear toH238
זֹ֑אתZotthisH2063
יַקְשִׁ֥בyak.Shivwill he pay attention?H7181
וְיִשְׁמַ֖עve.yish.Ma'and he may listen?H8085
לְאָחֽוֹר\׃le.'a.Chorto afterwardsH268

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Cross references for Isaiah 42:23

  • Acts 3:22-23

    For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.

  • Isaiah 48:18

    O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:

  • Leviticus 26:40-42

    If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me; And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity: Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.

  • Matthew 21:28-31

    But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard. He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went. And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: and went not. Whether of them twain did the will of his father? They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.

  • Deuteronomy 4:29-31

    But if from thence thou shalt seek the Lord thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the Lord thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice; (For the Lord thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.

  • Jeremiah 3:4-7

    Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth? Will he reserve his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldest. The Lord said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot. And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.

  • Deuteronomy 32:29

    O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

  • Jeremiah 3:13

    Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the Lord.

  • Proverbs 1:22-23

    How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

  • Micah 6:9

    The Lord’s voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.

  • 1 Peter 4:2-3

    That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:

  • Acts 3:19

    Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
will give.
1:18-20; 48:18; Le 26:40-42; De 4:29-31; 32:29; Pr 1:22,23
Jer 3:4-7,13; Mic 6:9; Mt 21:28-31; Ac 3:19,22,23; 1Pe 4:2,3
time to come. Heb. after-time.

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Context

  • Isaiah 42:22

    But this is a people robbed and spoiled; 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.

  • Isaiah 42:23

    Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come?

  • Isaiah 42:24

    Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the Lord, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.

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Isaiah 42:23 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
¿Quién de vosotros oirá esto? ¿quién atenderá y escuchará en orden al porvernir?
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Qui parmi vous prêtera l’oreille à cela? Qui fera attention, et écoutera ce qui est à venir?
German
Elberfelder 1871
Wer unter euch will dieses zu Ohren nehmen, will aufmerken und in Zukunft hören?
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Quis est in vobis qui audiat hoc, attendat, et auscultet futura?