the Week of Proper 16 / Ordinary 21
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Isaiah 42:18
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“Listen, you deaf!Look, you blind, so that you may see.
Hear, you deaf; and look, you blind, that you may see.
Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see!
Hear, you who are deaf! And look, you who are blind, so that you may see.
"You who are deaf, hear me. You who are blind, look and see.
Hear, you deaf! And look, you blind, that you may see.
Hear, you deaf; and look, you blind, that you may see.
Heare, ye deafe: and ye blinde, regarde, that ye may see.
Hear, you deaf!And look, you blind, that you may see.
"Listen, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see.
You people are deaf and blind, but the Lord commands you to listen and to see.
Listen, you deaf! Look, you blind! — so that you will see!
—Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
"Deaf people, listen to me! Blind people, look and see!
Hear, O you deaf! And understand and see, O you blind!
The Lord says, "Listen, you deaf people! Look closely, you that are blind!
Deaf people, listen! And blind people, look to see!
O deaf ones, hear! And O blind ones, look to see!
Heare, o ye deaf men, and sharpen youre sightes to se (o ye blinde.)
Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
Give ear, you whose ears are shut; and let your eyes be open, you blind, so that you may see.
Hear, ye deaf, and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
Heare O ye deafe men, and sharpen your eyes to see O ye blinde.
Hear, ye deaf, and look up, ye blind, to see.
Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
Ye deef men, here; and ye blynde men, biholde to se.
Hear, you deaf; and look, you blind, that you may see.
Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
"Listen, you deaf ones! Take notice, you blind ones!
"Hear, you deaf; And look, you blind, that you may see.
"Listen, you who are deaf! Look and see, you blind!
Listen, you who do not hear! And look, you blind, that you may see.
Listen, you that are deaf; and you that are blind, look up and see!
Ye deaf hear! And ye blind look around that ye may see, Who is blind if not my Servant? Or deaf, like, my messenger whom I send?
Hear, ye deaf, and, ye blind, behold that you may see.
Hear, you deaf; and look, you blind, that you may see!
Ye deaf, hear; and ye blind, look to see.
Pay attention! Are you deaf? Open your eyes! Are you blind? You're my servant, and you're not looking! You're my messenger, and you're not listening! The very people I depended upon, servants of God , blind as a bat—willfully blind! You've seen a lot, but looked at nothing. You've heard everything, but listened to nothing. God intended, out of the goodness of his heart, to be lavish in his revelation. But this is a people battered and cowed, shut up in attics and closets, Victims licking their wounds, feeling ignored, abandoned. But is anyone out there listening? Is anyone paying attention to what's coming? Who do you think turned Jacob over to the thugs, let loose the robbers on Israel? Wasn't it God himself, this God against whom we've sinned— not doing what he commanded, not listening to what he said? Isn't it God's anger that's behind all this, God's punishing power? Their whole world collapsed but they still didn't get it; their life is in ruins but they don't take it to heart.
Hear, you deaf! And look, you blind, that you may see.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
ye deaf: Isaiah 29:18, Isaiah 43:8, Exodus 4:11, Proverbs 20:12, Mark 7:34-37, Luke 7:22, Revelation 3:17, Revelation 3:18
Reciprocal: Psalms 146:8 - openeth Isaiah 44:9 - their own Isaiah 45:20 - they Ezekiel 37:4 - O ye Matthew 13:13 - General Matthew 20:30 - two Mark 3:5 - hardness Mark 8:18 - see John 8:27 - General John 9:39 - might be 2 Corinthians 3:14 - their Revelation 9:20 - and idols
Cross-References
And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the feare of God is not in this place: and they will slay mee for my wiues sake.
Thou shalt not rule ouer him with rigour, but shalt feare thy God.
Also I said, It is not good that yee doe: ought yee not to walke in the feare of our God, because of the reproch of the heathen our enemies?
But the former gouernours that had bene before me, were chargeable vnto the people, and had taken of them bread, and wine, beside fourtie shekels of siluer, yea euen their seruants bare rule ouer the people: but so did not I, because of the feare of God.
Saying, There was in a city a Iudge, which feared not God neither regarded man.
And hee would not for a while. But afterward he said within himselfe, Though I feare not God, nor regard man,
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see. Jarchi and Kimchi think these words are spoken to Israel, who, as Aben Ezra says, were deaf and blind in heart; but they are rather an exhortation to the Gentiles that remained impenitent and unbelieving, and who were deaf to the voice of the Gospel, and blind as to the knowledge of it; and the purport of the exhortation is, that they would make use of their external hearing and sight, which they had, that they might attain to a spiritual hearing and understanding of divine things; "for faith comes by hearing, and hearing the word of God", Romans 10:17 to hear the Gospel preached, and to look into the Scriptures, and read the word of God, are the means of attaining light and knowledge in spiritual things; and these are within the compass of natural men, who are internally deaf and blind.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Hear, ye deaf - This is evidently an address to the Jews, and probably to the Jews of the time of the prophet. He had been predicting the coming of the Messiah, and the influence of his religion on the Gentile world. He had said that God would go forth to destroy the idolatry of the pagan nations, and to convince them of the folly of the worship of images, and to confound them for putting their trust in them. He seems here to have recollected that this was the easily-besetting sin of his own countrymen, and perhaps especially of the times when he penned this portion of the prophecy - under the reign of Manasseh; that that generation was stupid, blind, deaf to the calls of God, and sunk in the deepest debasement of idolatry. In view of this, and of the great truths which he had uttered, he calls on them to hear, to be alarmed, to return to God, and assures them that for these sins they exposed themselves to, and must experience, his sore displeasure. The statement of these truths, and the denouncing of these judgments, occupy the remainder of this chapter. A similar instance occurs in Isaiah 2:0, where the prophet, having foretold the coming of the Messiah, and the fact that his religion would be extended among the Gentiles, turns and reproves the Jews for their idolatry and crimes (see the notes at that chapter). The Jewish people are often described as ‘deaf’ to the voice of God, and ‘blind’ to their duty and their interests (see Isaiah 29:18; Isaiah 42:8).
And look ... that ye may see - This phrase denotes an attentive, careful, and anxious search, in order that there may be a clear view of the object. The prophet calls them to an attentive contemplation of the object, that they might have a clear and distinct view of it. They had hitherto looked at the subject of religion in a careless, inattentive, and thoughtless manner.
