Musing: The Bible Isaiah 42

Hear, you deaf! And look, you blind, that you may see.

Is anyone more blind than My servant,

Or so deaf as My messenger whom I send?

Who is so blind like the one committed to Me,

Or so bind as the servant of the Lord?

You have seen many things, but you refuse to act on them;

Your ears are open, but you hear nothing.

The Lord was pleased for His righteousness sake

To exalt the Law and make it glorious.

But His own people have been robbed and plundered;

All of them are enslaved in caves, or hidden away in prisons;

They have become a prey with none to deliver them,

And a spoil, with none to say, ‘Give them back!’

Who among you will give ear to this?

Who will give heed and see the ruin that awaits you in the future?

Who gave Jacob up for plunder, and Israel to robbers?

It was the Lord Himself against whom we have sinned.

For they were not willing to walk in His ways,

Nor were they obedient to His Law.

Therefore He poured out on him the heat of His anger

And the fierceness of battle.

It has set him aflame all around,

Yet they still refused to understand;

And it burned them, but they did not take it to heart;

We learned nothing at all from it.