Isaiah 42:23

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“Who among you will pay attention to this? Who will listen and obey hereafter?”

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BSBPD

“Who among you will pay attention to this? Who will listen and obey hereafter?”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Who is there among you that will give ear to this? that will hearken and hear for the time to come?”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Who among you giveth ear <FI>to<Fi> this? Attendeth, and heareth afterwards.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Isaiah 42:23 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Leviticus 26:40But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me—
  2. Deuteronomy 4:29But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
  3. Deuteronomy 32:29If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.
  4. Proverbs 1:22“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?
  5. Isaiah 1:18“Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool.
  6. Isaiah 48:18If only you had paid attention to My commandments, your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like waves of the sea.
  7. Jeremiah 3:4Have you not just called to Me, ‘My Father, You are my friend from youth.
  8. Jeremiah 3:13Only acknowledge your guilt, that you have rebelled against the LORD your God. You have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every green tree and have not obeyed My voice,’” declares the LORD.
  9. Micah 6:9The voice of the LORD calls out to the city (and it is sound wisdom to fear Your name): “Heed the rod and the One who ordained it.
  10. Matthew 21:28But what do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first one and said, ‘Son, go and work today in the vineyard.’
  11. Acts 3:19Repent, then, and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away,
  12. Acts 3:22For 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.
  13. 1 Peter 4:2Consequently, he does not live out his remaining time on earth for human passions, but for the will of God.

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