Bible verse

Isaiah 42:20

Though seeing many things, you do not keep watch. Though your ears are open, you do not hear.”

Isaiah 42:20 · BSB

Isaiah 42:20 in context

The verses around it, from Isaiah 42.

16 I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.

17 But those who trust in idols and say to molten images, ‘You are our gods!’ will be turned back in utter shame.

18 Listen, you deaf ones; look, you blind ones, that you may see!

19 Who is blind but My servant, or deaf like the messenger I am sending? Who is blind like My covenant partner, or blind like the servant of the LORD?

20 Though seeing many things, you do not keep watch. Though your ears are open, you do not hear.”

21 The LORD was pleased, for the sake of His righteousness, to magnify His law and make it glorious.

22 But this is a people plundered and looted, all trapped in caves or imprisoned in dungeons. They have become plunder with no one to rescue them, and loot with no one to say, “Send them back!”

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

24 Who gave Jacob up for spoil, and Israel to the plunderers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned? They were unwilling to walk in His ways, and they would not obey His law.

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Isaiah 42:20 in other translations

KJV

Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not.

ASV

Thou seest many things, but thou observest not; his ears are open, but he heareth not.

ERV

Thou seest many things, but thou observest not; his ears are open, but he heareth not.

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