John Gill Commentary Isaiah 42:23

"Who is there among you that will give ear to this? that will hearken and hear for the time to come?" — Isaiah 42:23 (ASV)

Who among you will give ear to this ? &c.] To this prophecy of your destruction, and to what follows concerning it: who will hearken and hear for the time to come ? and receive instruction from hence, and repent and reform? none at all; so blind, and deaf, and stupid, were they both before, and at their destruction, and even ever since; they take no notice of the hand of God upon them, nor hearken to the rod, any more than to the word of God; which seems to be what is meant by "the time to come", or "hereafter"; and this will be their case till the veil is taken away, and then they shall see and hear, and turn to the Lord.