Isaiah 42:20
Isaiah 42:18-25 The Message (MSG)
Pay attention! Are you deaf? Open your eyes! Are you blind? You’re my servant, and you’re not looking! You’re my messenger, and you’re not listening! The very people I depended upon, servants of GOD, blind as a bat—willfully blind! You’ve seen a lot, but looked at nothing. You’ve heard everything, but listened to nothing. GOD intended, out of the goodness of his heart, to be lavish in his revelation. But this is a people battered and cowed, shut up in attics and closets, Victims licking their wounds, feeling ignored, abandoned. But is anyone out there listening? Is anyone paying attention to what’s coming? Who do you think turned Jacob over to the thugs, let loose the robbers on Israel? Wasn’t it GOD himself, this God against whom we’ve sinned— not doing what he commanded, not listening to what he said? Isn’t it God’s anger that’s behind all this, God’s punishing power? Their whole world collapsed but they still didn’t get it; their life is in ruins but they don’t take it to heart.
Isaiah 42:20 King James Version (KJV)
Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not.
Isaiah 42:20 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
You have seen many things, but you do not observe them; Your ears are open, but none hears.
Isaiah 42:20 New Century Version (NCV)
Israel, you have seen much, but you have not obeyed. You hear, but you refuse to listen.”
Isaiah 42:20 American Standard Version (ASV)
Thou seest many things, but thou observest not; his ears are open, but he heareth not.
Isaiah 42:20 New International Version (Anglicised) (NIVUK)
You have seen many things, but you pay no attention; your ears are open, but you do not listen.’
Isaiah 42:20 New King James Version (NKJV)
Seeing many things, but you do not observe; Opening the ears, but he does not hear.”
Isaiah 42:20 Amplified Bible (AMP)
You have seen many things, but you do not observe them; Your ears are open, but no one hears.
Isaiah 42:20 New Living Translation (NLT)
You see and recognize what is right but refuse to act on it. You hear with your ears, but you don’t really listen.”