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Isaiah 42:20
Isaiah 42:20 is verse 20 of Isaiah chapter 42, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Though seeing many things, you do not keep watch. Though your ears are open, you do not hear.”
King James Version
Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not.
World English Bible
You see many things, but don’t observe. His ears are open, but he doesn’t listen.
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Isaiah 42:18–22 · Berean Standard Bible
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!”
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Cross-references
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Isaiah 1:3The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”
Isaiah 48:6You have heard these things; look at them all. Will you not acknowledge them? From now on I will tell you of new things, hidden things unknown to you.
Isaiah 48:7They are created now, and not long ago; you have not heard of them before today. So you cannot claim, ‘I already knew them!’
Isaiah 48:8You have never heard; you have never understood; for a long time your ears have not been open. For I knew how deceitful you are; you have been called a rebel from birth.
Numbers 14:22not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times—
Deuteronomy 4:9Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen, and so that they do not slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and grandchildren.
Deuteronomy 29:2Moses summoned all Israel and proclaimed to them, “You have seen with your own eyes everything the LORD did in Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials, and to all his land.
Deuteronomy 29:3You saw with your own eyes the great trials, and those miraculous signs and wonders.
Deuteronomy 29:4Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.
Nehemiah 9:10You performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, all his officials, and all the people of his land, for You knew they had acted with arrogance against our fathers. You made a name for Yourself that endures to this day.
Nehemiah 9:11You divided the sea before them, and they crossed through it on dry ground. You hurled their pursuers into the depths like a stone into raging waters.
Nehemiah 9:12You led them with a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, to light for them the way in which they should travel.
Nehemiah 9:13You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven. You gave them just ordinances, true laws, and good statutes and commandments.
Nehemiah 9:14You revealed to them Your holy Sabbath and gave them commandments and statutes and laws through Your servant Moses.
Nehemiah 9:15In their hunger You gave them bread from heaven; in their thirst You brought them water from the rock. You told them to go in and possess the land which You had sworn to give them.
Nehemiah 9:16But they and our fathers became arrogant and stiff-necked and did not obey Your commandments.
Nehemiah 9:17They refused to listen and failed to remember the wonders You performed among them. They stiffened their necks and appointed a leader to return them to their bondage in Egypt. But You are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in loving devotion, and You did not forsake them.
Psalms 106:7Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there at the Red Sea.
Psalms 106:8Yet He saved them for the sake of His name, to make His power known.
Psalms 106:9He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; He led them through the depths as through a desert.
Psalms 106:10He saved them from the hand that hated them; He redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
Psalms 106:11The waters covered their foes; not one of them remained.
Psalms 106:12Then they believed His promises and sang His praise.
Psalms 106:13Yet they soon forgot His works and failed to wait for His counsel.
Psalms 107:43Let him who is wise pay heed to these things and consider the loving devotion of the LORD.
John 9:37“You have already seen Him,” Jesus answered. “He is the One speaking with you.”
John 9:38“Lord, I believe,” he said. And he worshiped Jesus.
John 9:39Then Jesus declared, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind may see and those who see may become blind.”
John 9:40Some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard this, and they asked Him, “Are we blind too?”
John 11:37But some of them asked, “Could not this man who opened the eyes of the blind also have kept Lazarus from dying?”
John 11:38Jesus, once again deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance.
John 11:39“Take away the stone,” Jesus said. “Lord, by now he stinks,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man. “It has already been four days.”
John 11:40Jesus replied, “Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?”
John 11:41So they took away the stone. Then Jesus lifted His eyes upward and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.
John 11:42I knew that You always hear Me, but I say this for the benefit of the people standing here, so they may believe that You sent Me.”
John 11:43After Jesus had said this, He called out in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”
John 11:44The man who had been dead came out with his hands and feet bound in strips of linen, and his face wrapped in a cloth. “Unwrap him and let him go,” Jesus told them.
John 11:45Therefore many of the Jews who had come to Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, believed in Him.
John 11:46But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
John 11:47Then the chief priests and Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we to do? This man is performing many signs.
John 11:48If we let Him go on like this, everyone will believe in Him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”
John 11:49But one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all!
John 11:50You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.”
Isaiah 58:2For day after day they seek Me and delight to know My ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not forsake the justice of their God. They ask Me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of God.”
Jeremiah 42:2Jeremiah the prophet and said, “May our petition come before you; pray to the LORD your God on behalf of this entire remnant. For few of us remain of the many, as you can see with your own eyes.
Jeremiah 42:3Pray that the LORD your God will tell us the way we should walk and the thing we should do.”
Jeremiah 42:4“I have heard you,” replied Jeremiah the prophet. “I will surely pray to the LORD your God as you request, and I will tell you everything that the LORD answers; I will not withhold a word from you.”
Jeremiah 42:5Then they said to Jeremiah, “May the LORD be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act upon every word that the LORD your God sends you to tell us.
Ezekiel 33:31So My people come to you as usual, sit before you, and hear your words; but they do not put them into practice. Although they express love with their mouths, their hearts pursue dishonest gain.
Mark 6:19So Herodias held a grudge against John and wanted to kill him. But she had been unable,
Mark 6:20because Herod feared John and protected him, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man. When he heard John’s words, he was greatly perplexed; yet he listened to him gladly.
Acts 28:22But we consider your views worth hearing, because we know that people everywhere are speaking against this sect.”
Acts 28:23So they set a day to meet with Paul, and many people came to the place he was staying. He expounded to them from morning to evening, testifying about the kingdom of God and persuading them about Jesus from the Law of Moses and the Prophets.
Acts 28:24Some of them were convinced by what he said, but others refused to believe.
Acts 28:25They disagreed among themselves and began to leave after Paul had made this final statement: “The Holy Spirit was right when He spoke to your fathers through Isaiah the prophet:
Acts 28:26‘Go to this people and say, “You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.”
Acts 28:27For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.’