Isaiah 42:18-25 ▼

18 Hear, you deaf! And look, you blind, that you may see.

19 Who is blind but My servant, Or so deaf as My messenger whom I send? Who is so blind as he that is at peace with Me, Or so blind as the servant of Yahweh?

20 You have seen many things, but you do not keep them; Your ears are open, but none hears.

21 Yahweh was pleased for His righteousness’ sake That He make the law great and majestic.

22 But this is a people plundered and pillaged as spoil; All of them are trapped in caves, Or are hidden away in prisons; They have become a plunder with none to deliver them, And a spoil, with none to say, “Have them return!”

23 Who among you will give ear to this? Who will give heed and hear hereafter?

24 Who gave Jacob up for spoil, and Israel to plunderers? Was it not Yahweh, against whom we have sinned, And in whose ways they were not willing to walk, And whose law they did not obey?

25 So He poured out on him the heat of His anger And the fierceness of battle; And it set him aflame all around, Yet he did not know it; And it burned him, but he did not set it upon his heart.