Isaiah 28:23

28:23 Pay attention and listen to my message! ¹ 

Be attentive and listen to what I have to say! ² 

Isaiah 1:10

1:10 Listen to the Lord’s word,

you leaders of Sodom! ³ 

Pay attention to our God’s rebuke, ⁴ 

people of Gomorrah!

Isaiah 51:4

51:4 Pay attention to me, my people!

Listen to me, my people!

For ⁵  I will issue a decree, ⁶ 

I will make my justice a light to the nations. ⁷ 

Isaiah 64:4

64:4 Since ancient times no one has heard or perceived, ⁸ 

no eye has seen any God besides you,

who intervenes for those who wait for him.

[28:23]  ¹ tn Heb “to my voice.”

[28:23]  ² tn Heb “to my word”; cf. KJV, ASV, NRSV “hear my speech.”

[1:10]  ³ sn Building on the simile of v. 9, the prophet sarcastically addresses the leaders and people of Jerusalem as if they were leaders and residents of ancient Sodom and Gomorrah. The sarcasm is appropriate, for if the judgment is comparable to Sodom’s, that must mean that the sin which prompted the judgment is comparable as well.

[1:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “to the instruction of our God.” In this context, which is highly accusatory and threatening, תּוֹרָה (torah, “law, instruction”) does not refer to mere teaching, but to corrective teaching and rebuke.

[51:4]  ⁵ tn Or “certainly.”

[51:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “instruction [or “a law”] will go out from me.”

[51:4]  ⁷ tn Heb “and my justice for a light to the nations I will cause to rest.”

[64:4]  ⁷ tn Heb “from ancient times they have not heard, they have not listened.”