Isaiah 42:23

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

Who among you will give ear to this? Who will listen and pay attention for the time to come?

Additional Resources

Other Translations

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 48:18 : 18 If only you had paid attention to My commands, your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
  • Jer 3:4-7 : 4 Have you not just now called to me, 'My Father, you are the friend of my youth'? 5 Will you always be angry? Will you remain so forever? This is what you say, but you do all the evil you can. 6 During the reign of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, "Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every spreading tree and has prostituted herself there." 7 I thought, 'After she has done all this, she will return to me.' But she did not return, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it.
  • Jer 3:13 : 13 Only acknowledge your guilt—that you have rebelled against the LORD your God, scattered your favors to strangers under every spreading tree, and have not obeyed my voice,' declares the LORD.
  • Mic 6:9 : 9 The voice of the Lord calls to the city (and wisdom fears Your name): 'Hear the rod and the One who appointed it.'
  • Matt 21:28-31 : 28 What do you think? A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, 'Son, go work today in the vineyard.' 29 The son replied, 'I don’t want to.' But later, he changed his mind and went. 30 The man then went to the second son and said the same thing. He answered, 'I will, sir,' but he did not go. 31 Which of the two did the will of his father? They said, 'The first.' Jesus said to them, 'Truly I tell you, tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you.'
  • Acts 3:19 : 19 Repent, therefore, and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away.
  • Acts 3:22-23 : 22 Moses said: 'The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to Him in everything He tells you. 23 And it will be that every person who does not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.'
  • 1 Pet 4:2-3 : 2 As a result, you should no longer live the rest of your earthly life for human desires but instead for the will of God. 3 For you have already spent enough time in the past doing what the Gentiles choose to do, living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.
  • Lev 26:40-42 : 40 But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their ancestors—their unfaithfulness with which they were unfaithful to me, and also how they walked contrary to me— 41 so that I also walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts are humbled, and they accept their punishment for their iniquity, 42 then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.
  • Deut 4:29-31 : 29 But from there, you will seek the LORD your God, and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. 30 When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you in the latter days, you will return to the LORD your God and listen to His voice. 31 For the LORD your God is a merciful God; He will not abandon you, destroy you, or forget the covenant He swore to your ancestors.
  • Deut 32:29 : 29 If only they were wise and would understand this, they would comprehend their latter end.
  • Prov 1:22-23 : 22 How long, simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge? 23 If you turn at my correction, behold, I will pour out my Spirit to you; I will make my words known to you.
  • Isa 1:18-20 : 18 "Come now, let us reason together," says the LORD. "Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool. 19 If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best of the land. 20 But if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword, for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Isa 42:22
    80%

    22But this is a people plundered and looted, all of them trapped in holes or hidden away in prisons. They have become plunder, with no one to rescue them; they are loot, with no one to say, 'Restore them.'

  • Isa 42:24
    78%

    24Who handed Jacob over to be plundered, and Israel to the looters? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned? They refused to walk in His ways or obey His law.

  • Isa 28:23
    77%

    23Listen and hear my voice. Pay attention and hear my words.

  • Jer 5:20-21
    2 verses
    74%

    20Declare this to the house of Jacob and proclaim it in Judah, saying:

    21Hear this, you foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.

  • Isa 42:18-20
    3 verses
    74%

    18Hear, you deaf! Look, you blind, that you may see!

    19Who is blind but my servant, or deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is as blind as my dedicated one, or as blind as the servant of the LORD?

    20You have seen many things, but you do not observe them; your ears are open, but you do not listen.

  • Jer 23:18
    73%

    18For who has stood in the council of the LORD to see and hear His word? Who has paid attention to His word and obeyed it?

  • Ezek 24:26
    73%

    26On that day, a fugitive will come to you to report the news to your ears.

  • Isa 32:3
    73%

    3The eyes of those who see will no longer be closed, and the ears of those who hear will listen attentively.

  • Isa 41:26-27
    2 verses
    73%

    26Who has declared this from the beginning that we might know, or in advance that we might say ‘He is right’? No one proclaimed it, no one announced it, no one heard any words from you.

    27I was the first to say to Zion, 'Look, here they are!' And I give to Jerusalem a messenger of good news.

  • Isa 10:3
    72%

    3What will you do on the day of punishment, when devastation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth?

  • Prov 21:13
    71%

    13Whoever shuts their ears to the cry of the poor will also cry out and not be answered.

  • Jer 6:18
    71%

    18Therefore hear, O nations; observe, O congregation, what is among them!

  • Ps 49:1
    71%

    1For the director, a psalm of the sons of Korah.

  • Mark 4:23
    71%

    23If anyone has ears to hear, let them hear.

  • Isa 43:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8Bring out the people who are blind, yet have eyes, who are deaf, yet have ears.

    9All the nations gather together, and the peoples assemble. Who among them can declare this and proclaim the former things? Let them produce their witnesses to prove they were right, so that others may hear and say, 'It is true.'

  • Rev 13:9
    71%

    9If anyone has ears to hear, let them listen.

  • Isa 51:7
    71%

    7Listen to me, you who know righteousness, you people who have my teaching in your hearts. Do not fear the reproach of men or be dismayed by their insults.

  • Jer 6:10
    71%

    10To whom can I speak and give warning so they will listen? Their ears are closed, and they cannot pay attention. The word of the Lord is offensive to them; they take no pleasure in it.

  • Jer 28:7
    71%

    7Nevertheless, listen now to this word I am speaking in your hearing and in the hearing of all the people:

  • Isa 51:1
    71%

    1Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness and seek the Lord. Look to the rock from which you were cut and to the quarry from which you were dug.

  • Matt 11:15
    70%

    15He who has ears, let him hear.

  • Isa 46:12
    70%

    12Listen to Me, you stubborn-hearted, who are far from righteousness.

  • Amos 8:4
    70%

    4Hear this, you who trample on the needy and seek to destroy the poor of the land,

  • Matt 13:9
    70%

    9Let anyone who has ears listen.

  • Jer 22:21
    70%

    21I spoke to you in your prosperity, but you said, 'I will not listen.' This has been your way since your youth; you have not obeyed me.

  • Isa 34:1
    70%

    1Come near, O nations, to listen; and pay attention, O peoples! Let the earth hear, and all that fills it, the world and all its inhabitants.

  • Jer 13:15
    70%

    15Listen and pay attention! Do not be proud, for the LORD has spoken.

  • Isa 44:7
    70%

    7Who is like Me? Let him declare and explain it. Let him present it to Me since I established the ancient people. Let them declare the things that are to come and what will happen.

  • Mic 3:1
    70%

    1Then I said: "Hear now, leaders of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel: Is it not your responsibility to know justice?

  • Job 13:17
    70%

    17Listen carefully to my words and let my declaration enter your ears.

  • Ps 78:1
    70%

    1A teaching of Asaph. Listen, my people, to my instruction; incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

  • Jer 4:21
    70%

    21How long must I see the banner and hear the sound of the trumpet?

  • Jer 18:19
    69%

    19Listen to me, Lord! Hear what my accusers are saying!

  • Job 34:16
    69%

    16If you have understanding, listen to this; pay attention to the sound of my words.

  • Job 42:4
    69%

    4You said, 'Listen now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you shall inform Me.'

  • Job 21:31
    69%

    31Who will confront him with his conduct? Who repays him for what he has done?

  • Isa 29:18
    69%

    18On that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind will see.

  • Isa 50:5
    69%

    5The Sovereign LORD has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious; I did not turn away.

  • Jer 15:5
    69%

    5Who will have pity on you, Jerusalem? Who will mourn for you? Who will turn aside to ask how you are?

  • 2 Kgs 21:12
    69%

    12'therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I am about to bring such disaster upon Jerusalem and Judah that the ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle.'

  • Isa 30:21
    69%

    21Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, 'This is the way; walk in it.'

  • Isa 41:22
    69%

    22Tell us, you idols, what is going to happen. Tell us the former things, so that we may consider them and know their final outcome. Or declare to us the things to come.

  • Isa 51:4
    69%

    4Listen to me, my people; give ear to me, my nation. For My instruction will go out, and My justice will be a light for the peoples.

  • Isa 28:12
    69%

    12To whom He said, 'This is the place of rest—give rest to the weary; this is the place of repose’—but they would not listen.

  • Isa 49:8
    69%

    8This is what the Lord says: 'In the time of favor, I answered you, and in the day of salvation, I helped you. I will preserve you and make you a covenant to the people to restore the land and to distribute its desolate inheritances.'