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Isaiah 42:20 - Meaning and Application
Understand how this verse speaks to what you're facing and how to apply it today
Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" You see many things, but don’t observe. His ears are open, but he doesn’t listen. "
Isaiah 42:20
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
18 “Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see.
19 Who is blind, but my servant? Or who is as deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is as blind as he who is at peace, and as blind as the LORD’s servant?
20 You see many things, but don’t observe. His ears are open, but he doesn’t listen.
21 It pleased the LORD, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify the law and make it honorable.
22 But this is a robbed and plundered people. All of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prisons. They have become captives, and no one delivers, and a plunder, and no one says, ‘Restore them!’
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Isaiah 42:1
"“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights: I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations."
Isaiah 42:2
"He will not shout, nor raise his voice, nor cause it to be heard in the street."
Isaiah 42:3
"He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a dimly burning wick. He will faithfully bring justice."
Isaiah 42:4
"He will not fail nor be discouraged, until he has set justice on the earth, and the islands wait for his law.”"
Isaiah 42:5
"God the LORD, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it, says:"
Isaiah 42:6
"“I, the LORD, have called you in righteousness. I will hold your hand. I will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people, as a light for the nations,"
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