以赛亚书 42:18

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

責民愚昧無知聾子啊！你們要聽。瞎子啊！你們要留心去看。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
你 们 这 耳 聋 的 ， 听 罢 ！ 你 们 这 眼 瞎 的 ， 看 罢 ！ 使 你 们 能 看 见 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁸ "You who are deaf, hear me. You who are blind, look and see. ¹⁹ No one is more blind than my servant Israel or more deaf than the messenger I send. No one is more blind than the person I own or more blind than the servant of the Lord . ²⁰ Israel, you have seen much, but you have not obeyed. You hear, but you refuse to listen." ²¹ The Lord made his teachings wonderful, because he is good. ²² These people have been defeated and robbed. They are trapped in pits or locked up in prison. Like robbers, enemies have taken them away, and there is no one to save them. Enemies carried them off, and no one said, "Bring them back." ²³ Will any of you listen to this? Will you listen carefully in the future? ²⁴ Who let the people of Jacob be carried off? Who let robbers take Israel away? The Lord allowed this to happen, because we sinned against him. We did not live the way he wanted us to live and did not obey his teaching. ²⁵ So he became very angry with us and brought terrible wars against us. It was as if the people of Israel had fire all around them, but they didn't know what was happening. It was as if they were burning, but they didn't pay any attention.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

ye deaf: Isaiah 29:18, Isaiah 43:8, Exodus 4:11, Proverbs 20:12, Mark 7:34-37, Luke 7:22, Revelation 3:17, Revelation 3:18

Reciprocal: Psalms 146:8 - openeth Isaiah 44:9 - their own Isaiah 45:20 - they Ezekiel 37:4 - O ye Matthew 13:13 - General Matthew 20:30 - two Mark 3:5 - hardness Mark 8:18 - see John 8:27 - General John 9:39 - might be 2 Corinthians 3:14 - their Revelation 9:20 - and idols

Cross-References

Genesis 20:11
Then Abraham answered, "I thought no one in this place respected God and that someone would kill me to get Sarah.

Leviticus 25:43
You must not rule this person cruelly, but you must respect your God.

Nehemiah 5:9
Then I said, "What you are doing is not right. Don't you fear God? Don't let our foreign enemies shame us.

Nehemiah 5:15
But the governors before me had placed a heavy load on the people. They took about one pound of silver from each person, along with food and wine. The governors' helpers before me also controlled the people, but I did not do that, because I feared God.

Luke 18:2
"In a certain town there was a judge who did not respect God or care about people.

Luke 18:4
For a while the judge refused to help her. But afterwards, he thought to himself, ‘Even though I don't respect God or care about people,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see. Jarchi and Kimchi think these words are spoken to Israel, who, as Aben Ezra says, were deaf and blind in heart; but they are rather an exhortation to the Gentiles that remained impenitent and unbelieving, and who were deaf to the voice of the Gospel, and blind as to the knowledge of it; and the purport of the exhortation is, that they would make use of their external hearing and sight, which they had, that they might attain to a spiritual hearing and understanding of divine things; "for faith comes by hearing, and hearing the word of God", Romans 10:17 to hear the Gospel preached, and to look into the Scriptures, and read the word of God, are the means of attaining light and knowledge in spiritual things; and these are within the compass of natural men, who are internally deaf and blind.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hear, ye deaf - This is evidently an address to the Jews, and probably to the Jews of the time of the prophet. He had been predicting the coming of the Messiah, and the influence of his religion on the Gentile world. He had said that God would go forth to destroy the idolatry of the pagan nations, and to convince them of the folly of the worship of images, and to confound them for putting their trust in them. He seems here to have recollected that this was the easily-besetting sin of his own countrymen, and perhaps especially of the times when he penned this portion of the prophecy - under the reign of Manasseh; that that generation was stupid, blind, deaf to the calls of God, and sunk in the deepest debasement of idolatry. In view of this, and of the great truths which he had uttered, he calls on them to hear, to be alarmed, to return to God, and assures them that for these sins they exposed themselves to, and must experience, his sore displeasure. The statement of these truths, and the denouncing of these judgments, occupy the remainder of this chapter. A similar instance occurs in Isaiah 2:0, where the prophet, having foretold the coming of the Messiah, and the fact that his religion would be extended among the Gentiles, turns and reproves the Jews for their idolatry and crimes (see the notes at that chapter). The Jewish people are often described as ‘deaf’ to the voice of God, and ‘blind’ to their duty and their interests (see Isaiah 29:18; Isaiah 42:8).

And look ... that ye may see - This phrase denotes an attentive, careful, and anxious search, in order that there may be a clear view of the object. The prophet calls them to an attentive contemplation of the object, that they might have a clear and distinct view of it. They had hitherto looked at the subject of religion in a careless, inattentive, and thoughtless manner.