“ Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see. ”
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...
Israel's Piteous Plight, a Punishment from Yahweh. The prophet bids the people, who have not recognised Yahweh's working in their distresses, look beneath the surface. To all appearance they are ca...
Hear. Note the call to hear in the Structure, corresponding with the call in Isaiah 42:23 .
18. O ye deaf, hear, and ye blind. He now employs these words, “blind” and “deaf,” in a sense different from that in which he formerly employed them, (verse 16,) when he metaphorically descr...
Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
Hear, ye deaf, &c.— The prophet, having foretold the future illumination and conversion of the Gentiles, and the abolition of idolatry, takes an occasion thence to reprove the Jews for their bl...
Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see. Hear, ye deaf - namely, to the voice of God. Look, ye blind - to your duty and interest; willfully so ( Isaiah 42:20 .) In this they di...
The Ideal Servant 1-9. The characteristics and functions of Israel as the ideal Servant of Jehovah. 10-17 A song of praise to Jehovah. 18-25. The deficiencies of the actual Israel, considere...
Hear, ye deaf... — The words form the beginning of a new section. The prophet feels or sees that the great argument has not carried conviction as it ought to have done. The people to whom Jehovah s...
BOOK 3 THE SERVANT OF THE LORD HAVING completed our survey of the fundamental truths of our prophecy, and studied the subject which forms its immediate and most urgent interest, the deliverance...
a Deaf and Blind Messenger Isaiah 42:14-25 There are times in our lives when God seems to hold His peace. Evil is rife, bad men prosper, society lies under the spell of vice. It is only tempor...
The manifesto now presents the great Servant of Jehovah. His person is first described. His manifestation is announced (verse Isaiah 42:1 ), His mission is declared (verse Isaiah 42:1 ), His method...
Here, as in the former Chapter s, the contrast is drawn between the Lord Jehovah, and the idols of the nations around; and the striking difference which marks the several worshippers is made between...
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 exhortatio...
Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see. Ver. 18. Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind. ] Ye who, as so many sea monsters or deaf adders, will not hear, and as so many blind moles will not...
Hear, ye deaf , &c. O you, whosoever you are, whether Jews or Gentiles, who shall resist this clear light, and obstinately continue in your former errors, attend diligently to my words, and cons...
The Blindness of the Jews. B. C. 708. 18 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye ma...
O you, whosoever you are, whether Jews or Gentiles, which shall resist this clear light, and obstinately continue in your former errors, attend diligently to my words, and consider these mighty works...
The Sad Present State of God's Servant, The Seed of Abraham ( Isaiah 42:18-25 ). The glory of the future is now brought down to earth by a recognition of the present condition of God's servant. In...
BLIND IN THE SUNLIGHT Isaiah 42:18-20 . Hear, ye deaf, and look, ye blind, &c. Thus the Lord expostulates with His ancient people, and thus He has reason to expostulate with us. We succeed t...
Isaiah 42:1 . Behold my servant. In the Chaldaic, the Messiah; and so the whole passage is cited from the LXX. Matthew 12:17-20 . All other applications of the word “servant” are superseded. Chri...
Hear, ye deaf Divine expostulation Thus the Lord expostulates with His ancient people, and thus He has reason to expostulate with us. 1. We are deaf, in a spiritual sense, when we do not att...
EXPOSITION Isaiah 42:1-23 ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE SERVANT OF THE LORD , AND THE WORK WHICH HE WILL PERFORM . There are comparatively few who deny that, in this place a...
Hear, ye deaf, and look, ye blind, that ye may see, so the prophet now addresses the people of Israel in general, on account of their spiritual callousness, which is rapidly turning into hardness of...
Exodus 4:11 ; Isaiah 29:18 ; Isaiah 43:8 ; Luke 7:22 ; Mark 7:34-37 ; Proverbs 20:12 ; Revelation 3:17 ; Revelation 3:18
Hear — O you, whosoever you are, who resist this clear light.