Isaiah 42:20

Israel sees and hears much yet neither observes nor truly listens. It describes the hardened heart that has knowledge without obedience.

Cross-references · 17

• Deut 29:2–4Moses called to all Israel, and said to them: Your eyes have seen all that Yahweh did in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;
• Jer 6:10To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, Yahweh’s word has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.
• Jer 42:2–5and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Please let our supplication be presented before you, and pray for us to Yahweh your God, even for all this remnant; for we are left but a few of many, as your eyes do see us;
• Deut 4:9Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children;
• Neh 9:10–17and showed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, and against all his servants, and against all the people of his land; for you knew that they dealt proudly against them, and made a name for yourself, as it is today.
• Isa 1:3The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know, my people don’t consider.”
• Isa 58:2Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways. As a nation that did righteousness, and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments. They delight to draw near to God.
• Isa 48:6–8You have heard it; see all this. And you, won’t you declare it? “I have shown you new things from this time, even hidden things, which you have not known.
• Ezek 33:31They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.
• Mark 6:19–20Herodias set herself against him, and desired to kill him, but she couldn’t,
• Acts 28:22–27But we desire to hear from you what you think. For, as concerning this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against.”
• Ps 106:7–13Our fathers didn’t understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn’t remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.
• Ps 107:43Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things. They will consider the loving kindnesses of Yahweh.
• John 11:37–50Some of them said, “Couldn’t this man, who opened the eyes of him who was blind, have also kept this man from dying?”
• John 9:37–40Jesus said to him, “You have both seen him, and it is he who speaks with you.”
• Num 14:22because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;
• Rom 2:21You therefore who teach another, don’t you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn’t steal, do you steal?

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