But this is a robbed and plundered people. All of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prisons. They have become a prey, and no one delivers; and a spoil, and no one says, 'Restore them!'
Isaiah 42:23 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Who is there among you who will give ear to this? Who will listen and hear for the time to come? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Who is there among you who will give ear to this? Who will listen and hear in the time to come? American Standard Version (1901) Who is there among you that will give ear to this? that will hearken and hear for the time to come? Common English Bible Which of you will listen to this, will pay attention and respond from now on? Catholic Public Domain Version Who is there among you who will hear this, who will listen closely and heed this in the future? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Who is there among you that will give ear to this, that will attend and hearken for times to come? |
But this is a robbed and plundered people. All of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prisons. They have become a prey, and no one delivers; and a spoil, and no one says, 'Restore them!'
Who gave Ya`akov as plunder, and Yisra'el to the robbers? Didn't the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in his ways, and they disobeyed his law.
Oh that you had listened to my mitzvot! then had your shalom been as a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea:
Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against the LORD your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice, says the LORD.
Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and [who is] he to whom the mouth of the LORD has spoken, that he may declare it? why is the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that none passes through?
The LORD's voice calls to the city, and wisdom sees your name: *Listen to the rod, and he who appointed it.
*Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,
Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!