Isaiah 42:19
Who is blind if not my Servant? Or deaf, like, my messenger whom I send? Who is, blind, like an intimate friend? Or blind like the Servant of Yahweh?
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
18Ye deaf hear! And ye blind look around that ye may see,
20Seeing many things, yet thou heedest not, Opening the ears yet he heareth not,
Cross References
Isaiah 6:9Then said he—Go and say unto this people,—Hear on but do not discern, See on but do not perceive:
Isaiah 29:9Stand ye stock still and stare, Besmear your eyes and be blind,—They are drunken but not with wine, They reel, but not with strong drink;
Isaiah 44:26Establishing the word of his Servant, And the counsel of his Messengers, he maketh good,—Who saith of Jerusalem—She shall be inhabited! And of the cities of Judah—They shall be built! And the ruins thereof, will I set up!
Jeremiah 4:22Surely, perverse, is my people Me, have they not known, Foolish sons, they are, Yea without understanding, they are: Wise, they are to commit wickedness, But how to do well, they know not!
Ezekiel 12:2Son of man. In the midst of a perverse house, dost thou dwell,— Who have eyes to see—and have not seen. Ears have they to hear—and have no heard, For a perverse house, they are.
Matthew 15:14Let them alone! they are, blind leaders; and, if the, blind, lead the, blind, both, into a ditch, will fall.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 42:19-25
The Blindness of the Jews. ( b. c. 708.) 18 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see. 19 Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the Lord 's servant? 20 Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not. 21 The Lord is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable. 22 But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they… Read the whole commentary →