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.
Isaiah 42:18-22
Living Bible
18 Oh, how blind and deaf you are toward God! Why won’t you listen? Why won’t you see? 19 Who in all the world is as blind as my own people,[a] who are designed to be my messengers of truth? Who is so blind as my “dedicated one,” the “servant of the Lord”? 20 You see and understand what is right but won’t heed nor do it; you hear, but you won’t listen.
21 The Lord has magnified his law and made it truly glorious. Through it he had planned to show the world that he is righteous. 22 But what a sight his people are—these who were to demonstrate to all the world the glory of his law;[b] for they are robbed, enslaved, imprisoned, trapped, fair game for all, with no one to protect them.
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- Isaiah 42:19 as my own people, literally, “as my servant.”
- Isaiah 42:22 these who were to demonstrate to all the world the glory of his law, implied in previous verse.
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