Daily Devotions
Isaiah
"Who among you will give ear to this?"
Text: Isaiah 42:23
TURNING A DEAF EAR
Despite sending prophet after prophet, Israel continued to remain blind and deaf. The nation had decided to turn a deaf ear to the LORD.
“Who among you will give ear to this?
Who will listen and hear for the time to come?
Who gave Jacob for plunder, and Israel to the robbers?
Was it not the LORD,
He against whom we have sinned?
For they would not walk in His ways,
Nor were they obedient to His law.
Therefore He has poured on him the fury of His anger
And the strength of battle;
It has set him on fire all around,
Yet he did not know;
And it burned him,
Yet he did not take it to heart.”
Isaiah 42:23-25
1. A valid query.
a) Who among Israel would hear the LORD?
b) Who would listen and hear for the future was at stake?
c) “The time to come” was a reference to the future.
d) The present would affect the future.
2. Learning from the past history of Israel?
a) Who had allowed Jacob/ Israel to be plundered and robbed?
b) The LORD had allowed this to happen!
3. Why had God allowed this to happen?
a) They had chosen to sin against the LORD.
b) They would not walk in His ways.
c) They refused to be obedient to God’s law.
4. The consequences that Israel suffered.
a) The fury of God’s anger was outpoured on Israel.
b) War came to Israel and the nation was defeated.
c) Israel saw many cities burned to the ground.
i) But the nation remained ignorant of what had happened.
ii) Though the nation was burned it did not take it to heart.
d) How could the nation have been so deaf and blind?