Isaiah 29:18
And in that day, the deaf will hear the words of a book, and out of darkness and obscurity the eyes of the blind will see.
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Deuteronomy 29:4But the Lord has not given you an understanding heart, and seeing eyes, and ears that are able to hear, even to this present day.
Proverbs 20:12The hearing ear and the seeing eye: the Lord has made them both.
Isaiah 29:12But if the book is given to someone who does not know how to read, and it is said to him, “Read,” then he will respond, “I do not know how to read.”
Isaiah 32:3The eyes of those who see will not be obscured, and the ears of those who hear will listen closely.
Isaiah 42:7so that you may open the eyes of the blind, and lead out the prisoner from confinement and those sitting in darkness from the house of incarceration.
Jeremiah 31:33But this will be the covenant that I will form with the house of Israel, after those days, says the Lord: I will give my law to their inner most being, and I will write it upon their heart. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 29:18-24
Promises to Israel; Character of Persecutors; Promises of Jacob. ( b. c. 725.) 17 Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest? 18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness. 19 The meek also shall increase their joy in the Lord , and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. 20 For the terrible one is brought to… Read the whole commentary →