以赛亚书 43:8

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

你要把那些有眼卻看不見，有耳卻聽不到的人民領出來。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
你 要 将 有 眼 而 瞎 、 有 耳 而 聋 的 民 都 带 出 来 ！

Contextual Overview

⁸ Bring out the people who have eyes but don't see and those who have ears but don't hear. ⁹ All the nations gather together, and all the people come together. Which of their gods said this would happen? Which of their gods can tell what happened in the beginning? Let them bring their witnesses to prove they were right. Then others will say, "It is true." ¹⁰ The Lord says, "You are my witnesses and the servant I chose. I chose you so you would know and believe me, so you would understand that I am the true God. There was no God before me, and there will be no God after me. ¹¹ I myself am the Lord ; I am the only Savior. ¹² I myself have spoken to you, saved you, and told you these things. It was not some foreign god among you. You are my witnesses, and I am God," says the Lord . ¹³ "I have always been God. No one can save people from my power; when I do something, no one can change it."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Isaiah 6:9, Isaiah 42:18-20, Isaiah 44:18-20, Deuteronomy 29:2-4, Jeremiah 5:21, Ezekiel 12:2, 2 Corinthians 4:4-6

Reciprocal: Isaiah 35:5 - the eyes Isaiah 44:9 - their own Isaiah 48:6 - and will Daniel 10:21 - I will Matthew 11:5 - the deaf Luke 7:22 - the deaf Luke 18:43 - he John 9:7 - and came Acts 26:18 - open

Cross-References

Genesis 42:2
I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy grain for us to eat, so that we will live and not die."

Genesis 42:38
But Jacob said, "I will not allow Benjamin to go with you. His brother is dead, and he is the only son left from my wife Rachel. I am afraid something terrible might happen to him during the trip to Egypt. Then I would be sad until the day I die."

Genesis 44:26
We said to our father, ‘We cannot go without our youngest brother. Without our youngest brother, we will not be allowed to see the governor.'

Genesis 45:19
Tell them to take some wagons from Egypt for their children and their wives and to bring their father back also.

Genesis 50:8
Everyone who lived with Joseph and his brothers went with him, as well as everyone who lived with his father. They left only their children, their flocks, and their herds in the land of Goshen.

Genesis 50:21
So don't be afraid. I will take care of you and your children." So Joseph comforted his brothers and spoke kind words to them.

Exodus 20:12
"Honor your father and your mother so that you will live a long time in the land that the Lord your God is going to give you.

Numbers 14:31
You said that your children would be taken away, but I will bring them into the land to enjoy what you refused.

Deuteronomy 33:6
"Let the people of Reuben live and not die, but let the people be few."

2 Kings 7:4
There is no food in the city. So if we go into the city, we will die there. If we stay here, we will die. So let's go to the Aramean camp. If they let us live, we will live. If they kill us, we die."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears,.... The Targum applies this to the bringing of the people of Israel out of Egypt; and others understand it of their deliverance from the Babylonish captivity; and some of the exclusion of them from the kingdom of heaven, and casting them into outward darkness, according to Matthew 8:12, but it is rather to be understood of the conviction of them; though better of the Gentiles, and of the enlightening of them, who before were blind; and causing them to hear, who before were deaf to spiritual things, agreeably to what goes before. It seems best to consider the words as a summons to the Heathens uncalled, to the Roman Pagan empire, to come forth and appear, who were as blind and deaf as the idols they worshipped, and plead their cause, agreeably to what follows.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bring forth the blind people - Many have understood this of the Jews. So Vitringa, Rosenmuller, Grotius, and others understand it. But Lowth, more correctly, regards it as referring to the Gentiles. It is designed as an argument to show the superiority of God over all idols, and to demonstrate that he was able to deliver his people from captivity and exile. He appeals, therefore Isaiah 43:9, to his own people in proof of his divinity and power. None of the pagan Isaiah 43:8 had been able to predict future events, none of the pagan gods, therefore, could save; but Yahweh, who had so often foretold events that were fulfilled, was able to deliver, and of that fact his own people had had abundant evidence.

That have eyes - They had natural faculties to see and know God (compare Romans 1:20), but they had not improved them, and they had, therefore, run into the sin and folly of idolatry. The phrase ‘bring forth,’ implies a solemn appeal made by God to them to enter into an argument on the subject (compare the note at Isaiah 41:1).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 43:8. Bring forth the blind people that have eyes - "Bring forth the people, blind, although they have eyes"] I understand this of the Gentiles, as the verse following, not of the Jews. Their natural faculties, if they had made a proper use of them, must have led them to the knowledge of the being and attributes of the one true God; "for his eternal power and Godhead," if well attended to, are clearly seen in his works, (Romans 1:20,) and would have preserved them from running into the folly and absurdity of worshipping idols. They are here challenged to produce the evidence of the power and foreknowledge of their idol gods; and the Jews are just afterwards, Isaiah 43:10, appealed to as witnesses for God in this cause, therefore these latter cannot here be meant by the people blind with eyes and deaf with ears.