Isaiah 65:24
And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
Note d'étude
Study Note
The promise 'before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear' presents the most intimate form of divine responsiveness — not reactive but anticipatory, God acting before the request is fully formed. This verse comes within the new-creation vision of Isaiah 65:17-25, where God's people and his world are restored to the harmony envisioned in Eden — making this superintending attentiveness not an exception but the normal texture of new-creation relationship. The contrast with 64:12's complaint 'wilt thou refrain thyself? wilt thou hold thy peace?' (where God seemed absent and silent in exile) gives the promise its experiential depth: the season of unanswered prayer is temporary; the new creation will know unimpeded divine hearing. Jesus' Gethsemane prayer (Matthew 26:39) and John 11:41-42 model the relationship between human request and divine pre-knowledge that this verse envisions.
Autres traductions
And it shall come to pass that, before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
And it hath come to pass, They do not yet call, and I answer, They are yet speaking, and I hear.
And before they make their request I will give an answer, and while they are still making prayer to me, I will give ear.
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