Isaiah 42:18-22
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Israel’s Blindness and Deafness
18 “Listen, you deaf!
Look, you blind, so that you may see.(A)
19 Who is blind but My servant,(B)
or deaf like My messenger I am sending?
Who is blind like My dedicated one,[a]
or blind like the servant of the Lord?
20 Though seeing many things,[b] you do not obey.
Though his ears are open, he does not listen.”(C)
21 The Lord was pleased, because of His righteousness,
to magnify His instruction and make it glorious.
22 But this is a people plundered and looted,
all of them trapped in holes
or imprisoned in dungeons.
They have become plunder(D)
with no one to rescue them
and loot, with no one saying, “Give it back!”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 42:19 Hb obscure
- Isaiah 42:20 Alt Hb tradition reads You see many things;
Isaiah 42:18-22
New Living Translation
Israel’s Failure to Listen and See
18 “Listen, you who are deaf!
Look and see, you blind!
19 Who is as blind as my own people, my servant?
Who is as deaf as my messenger?
Who is as blind as my chosen people,
the servant of the Lord?
20 You see and recognize what is right
but refuse to act on it.
You hear with your ears,
but you don’t really listen.”
21 Because he is righteous,
the Lord has exalted his glorious law.
22 But his own people have been robbed and plundered,
enslaved, imprisoned, and trapped.
They are fair game for anyone
and have no one to protect them,
no one to take them back home.
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