Yesaya 42:18

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Dengarkanlah, hai orang-orang tuli pandanglah dan lihatlah, hai orang-orang buta!

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Dengarkanlah, hai orang-orang tuli pandanglah dan lihatlah, hai orang-orang buta!

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Dengarlah olehmu, hai orang tuli! lihatlah dan pandanglah baik-baik, hai orang buta!

Contextual Overview

¹⁸ Heare O ye deafe men, and sharpen your eyes to see O ye blinde. ¹⁹ Who is blinde but my seruaunt? or so deafe as my messenger whom I sent vnto them? for who is so blinde as the perfect man, and so blinde as the Lords seruaunt? ²⁰ Thou hast seene much, and kepest nothing: the eares are open, and no man heareth. ²¹ The Lorde is mercyfull vnto them for his righteousnesse sake, that his word might be magnified and praysed: ²² But the people them selues is robbed and troden vnder the foote, chayned in dungeons, and they all I say, are shut into prison houses: they be caryed away captiue, and no man doth loose them: they be troden vnder foote, and no man doth labour to bryng them agayne. ²³ But who is he among you that pondereth this, that considereth it, and taketh it for a warning in tyme to come? ²⁴ Who gaue Iacob to be troden vnder foote, and Israel to be spoyled? Did not the Lorde? Because we haue sinned against hym, and haue had no delight to walke in his wayes, neither ben obedient vnto his lawe: ²⁵ Therfore he hath powred vpon hym his wrathfull displeasure and strong battayle, and hath fired hym on euery side, yet wyll he not vnderstand: he burneth hym vp, yet sinketh it not into his heart.

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
Abraha aunswered: For I thought [thus] surely the feare of God is not in this place, and they shal slaye me for my wyues sake.

Leviticus 25:43
Thou shalt not rule ouer hym cruelly, but shalt feare thy God.

Nehemiah 5:9
And [Nehemia] saide, It is not good that ye do: Ought ye not to walke in the feare of our God, because of the rebuke of the heathen that are our enemies?

Nehemiah 5:15
For the olde captaynes that were before me, had ben chargeable vnto the people, and had taken of them bread & wine, beside fouretie sicles of siluer, yea and their seruauntes had oppressed the people: But so did not I, and that because of the feare of God.

Luke 18:2
Saying: There was in a certayne citie, a iudge, whiche feared not God, neither regarded man.

Luke 18:4
And he woulde not for a whyle. But afterwarde he sayde within hym selfe: Though I feare not God, nor care for man,

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.