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23 Who among you will heed this,
    will listen attentively and listen, for the time to come?[a]
24 Who gave Jacob to a plunderer[b]
    and Israel to those who plunder?

Was it not Yahweh, against whom[c] we have sinned?

And they were not willing to walk in his ways,
    and they would not obey[d] his law.
25 So[e] he poured the wrath of his anger upon him
    and the strength of war.
And it set him afire all around, but[f] he did not understand;[g]
    and it burned him, but[h] he did not take it to heart.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 42:23 Literally “later”
  2. Isaiah 42:24 The reading tradition (Qere) has “as plunder”
  3. Isaiah 42:24 Or “this”
  4. Isaiah 42:24 Literally “hear”
  5. Isaiah 42:25 Or “and”
  6. Isaiah 42:25 Or “and”
  7. Isaiah 42:25 Or “did not know”
  8. Isaiah 42:25 Or “and”