Isaiah 42:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.

Isaiah 42:18 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 43:8
Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.
Mark 7:34-37
And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened. …
Proverbs 20:12
The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.
Isaiah 29:18
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.
Isaiah 35:5
Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 18-25)

The prophet, having spoken by way of comfort and encouragement to the believing Jews who waited for the consolation of Israel, here turns to those among them who were unbelieving, for their conviction and humiliation. Among those who were in captivity in Babylon there were some who were as the evil figs in Jeremiah’s vision, who were sent thither for their hurt, to be removed into all the kingdoms…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 18)

18. deaf--namely, to the voice of God. blind--to your duty and interest; wilfully so (Is 42:20). In this they differ from “the blind” (Is 42:16). The Jews are referred to. He had said, God would destroy the heathen idolatry; here he remembers that even Israel, His “servant” (Is 42:19), from whom better things might have been expected, is tainted with this sin.