JMNT(i)
14 How, then, can (may; should; would)
they at some point call unto (= invoke)
One Whom (or: that which)
they do not trust or believe (or: did not have faith in)?
And how can (may; should; would)
they believe where they do not hear (or: trust in Whom they did not hear)?
And how can they at any point hear apart from a person continually making public proclamation (habitually publishing and extensively heralding)?
15 Yet how can they publicly proclaim unless they may be sent forth as representative with a mission (or: as emissaries)?
Just as it has been and stands written, "How timely and seasonable [
are]
the feet of the folks continually bringing and announcing goodness (or: the good news of ease and well-being):
the good and excellent things!" [
Isa. 52:7]
16 But, to the contrary, everyone did not put the ear under hearing obedience (or: However, not all listen in obedience)
to the good news (or: message of goodness, ease and well-being).
For Isaiah is saying, "O Lord [= O Yahweh],
who believes (which one adhered and trusted)
in our hearing (or: by our hearing; in the thing heard from us)?
" [
Isa. 53:1]
17 Consequently, the faith (or: the trust; confidence; loyalty) [
comes or arises]
from out of the midst of, or from within, hearing, yet the hearing [
comes]
through a gush-effect of Christ, even through the result of a flow which is Christ (or: through Christ's utterance; through something spoken concerning Christ; or: by means of a declaration which is anointed, or from Christ; through a word uttered which is Christ; [other MSS: God's speech]).