Isaiah 42:23

New Century Version

Will any of you listen to this? Will you listen carefully in the future?

Cross References

Isaiah 42:22

These people have been defeated and robbed. They are trapped in pits or locked up in prison. Like robbers, enemies have taken them away, and there is no one to save them. Enemies carried them off, and no one said, “Bring them back.”

Isaiah 42:24

Who let the people of Jacob be carried off? Who let robbers take Israel away? The Lord allowed this to happen, because we sinned against him. We did not live the way he wanted us to live and did not obey his teaching.

Isaiah 48:18

If you had obeyed me, you would have had peace like a full-flowing river. Good things would have flowed to you like the waves of the sea.

Jeremiah 3:13

All you have to do is admit your sin— that you turned against the Lord your God and worshiped gods under every green tree and didn’t obey me,’ ” says the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:12

What person is wise enough to understand these things? Is there someone who has been taught by the Lord who can explain them? Why was the land ruined? Why has it been made like an empty desert where no one goes?

Micah 6:9

The voice of the Lord calls to the city, and the wise person honors him. So pay attention to the rod of punishment; pay attention to the One who threatens to punish.

Acts 3:19

So you must change your hearts and lives! Come back to God, and he will forgive your sins. Then the Lord will send the time of rest.

Deuteronomy 32:29

I wish they were wise and understood this; I wish they could see what will happen to them.