Isaiah 28:23

Context

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

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

Isaiah 36:12

Context
36:12 But the chief adviser said, “My master did not send me to speak these words only to your master and to you.³ His message is also for the men who sit on the wall, for they will eat their own excrement and drink their own urine along with you!”⁴

[28:23] ¹tn Heb “to my voice.”

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

[36:12] ³tn Heb “To your master and to you did my master send me to speak these words?” The rhetorical question expects a negative answer.

[36:12] ⁴tn Heb “[Is it] not [also] to the men…?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Yes, it is.”