Isaías 42:20

La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez

que ve muchas cosas y no advierte, que abre los oídos y no oye?

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
Tú has visto muchas cosas, pero no las observas; los oídos están abiertos, pero nadie oye.

La Biblia Reina-Valera
Que ve muchas cosas y no advierte, que abre los o�dos y no oye?

Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
que ve muchas cosas y no advierte, que abre los o�dos y no oye?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Seeing: Isaiah 1:3, Isaiah 48:6-8, Numbers 14:22, Deuteronomy 4:9, Deuteronomy 29:2-4, Nehemiah 9:10-17, Psalms 106:7-13, Psalms 107:43, John 9:37-40, John 11:37-50

opening: Isaiah 58:2, Jeremiah 42:2-5, Ezekiel 33:31, Mark 6:19, Mark 6:20, Acts 28:22-27

Reciprocal: Isaiah 48:8 - thou heardest Jeremiah 4:22 - For my Ezekiel 12:2 - which Zechariah 11:17 - the sword Matthew 21:27 - We cannot tell Mark 11:33 - We Luke 20:7 - that John 12:40 - that they Acts 28:26 - Hearing

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Seeing many things, but thou observest not,.... The Scribes and Pharisees, saw Christ in the flesh; they saw the miracles he did; they saw the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers cleansed, the deaf hear, and the dead raised; yet they did not give note to these things, and keep them in their minds, and regard them as clear proofs of his being the Messiah:

opening the ears, but he heareth not; they heard John Baptist preach, the forerunner of Christ, and the testimony he bore of him; they heard Christ himself and his apostles; they sometimes opened their ears, and seemed to listen and hear with attention, and wonder at what they heard; and some would own, that never man spake like Jesus; and yet understood not his speech, and hardened their hearts against him; they saw many things with their bodily eyes, but perceived them not with the eyes of their understandings; they heard with their ears, but understood not in their hearts; for their eyes were shut and their ears heavy, Isaiah 6:9.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Seeing many things - That is, the people, the Jews, spoken of here as the servants of God. They had had an opportunity of observing many things pertaining to the law, the government, and the dealing of Yahweh. They had often witnessed his interposition in the days of calamity, and he often rescued them from peril. These things they could not but have observed, much as they had chosen to disregard the lessons which they were calculated to convey.

But thou observest not - Thou dost not keep them (תשׁמר tı̂shmor); thou dost not regard them.

Opening the ears - Thou hast thine ears open. They heard the words of the law, and the instructions conveyed by tradition from their fathers, but they did not lay them to heart, or give heed to them (see the note at Isaiah 6:10).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 42:20. Seeing many things - "Thou hast seen indeed"] The text has ראית רבית raith rabith, which the Masoretes in the marginal Keri have corrected to ראות רבות reoth rabboth; as indeed one hundred and seven MSS., and five editions, now have it in the text. This was probably the reading of most of the MSS. of their time; which, though they approved of it, out of some superstition they would not admit into their standard text. But these wretched critics, though they perceived there was some fault, yet did not know where the fault lay, nor consequently how to amend it; and yet it was open enough to a judicious eye: רבות rabboth, sic veteres; et tamen forte legendum, ראות reoth, vide cap. Isaiah 6:9." - Secker. That is, ראית ראות raith, reoth, seeing, thou shalt see. I believe no one will doubt of admitting this as the true reading.

But he heareth not - "Yet thou wilt not hear"] For ישמע yishma, read תשמע tishma, in the second person; so all the ancient Versions and forty MSS. of Kennicott's, (four of them ancient,) and seventeen of De Rossi's, and perhaps five more. Two others have תשמעו tishmeu, second person plural.