Isaiah 42:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house. To open the blind eyes - In this verse the prophet seems to set forth the spiritual redemption, under images borrowed from the temporal deliverance.

Out of the prison house "And from the dungeon" - The Septuagint, Syriac, and four MSS., one ancient, add the conjunction ו vau, ומבית umibbeith, and from the house.

Isaiah 42:7

7 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.