hear

Heare ye deafe, and looke ye blinde that ye may see.

Who among you will giue eare to this? who will hearken, and heare for the time to come?

1611 marginal noteHebr. for the after time.

Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew vs former things? let them bring foorth their witnesses, that they may be iustified: or let them heare, and say, It is trueth.

1611 marginal noteChap.41.21.

¶ Yet now heare, O Iacob my seruant, and Israel whom I haue chosen.

1611 marginal noteCha.41.8. and 43.5. iere.30.10. and 46.27.

Therefore heare now this, thou that art giuen to pleasures, that dwellest carelesly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else besides mee, I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the losse of children.

¶ Heare yee this, O house of Iacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come foorth out of the waters of Iudah; which sweare by the Name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in trueth nor in righteousnes.

All yee assemble your selues and heare: which among them hath declared these things? the LORD hath loued him: hee will doe his pleasure on Babylon, and his arme shall be on the Caldeans.

¶ Come ye neere vnto me; heare ye this; I haue not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I; and now the LORD God and his Spirit hath sent me.

The LORD God hath giuen me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speake a worde in season to him that is wearie: hee wakeneth morning by morning, hee wakeneth mine eare to heare as the learned.

1611 marginal noteMatth.11.28.

¶ Therefore heare now this thou afflicted and drunken, but not with wine.