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Brenton's Septuagint
Isaiah 43:8
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Bring out a people who are blind, yet have eyes,and are deaf, yet have ears.
Bring forth the blind people who have eyes, and the deaf who have ears.
Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.
Bring out the people who are blind, yet have eyes, who are deaf, yet have ears!
Bring out the people who are blind, even though they have eyes, And those who are deaf, even though they have ears.
Bring out the people who have eyes but don't see and those who have ears but don't hear.
Bring out the people who are blind, even though they have eyes, And the deaf, even though they have ears.
Bring forth the blind people who have eyes, and the deaf who have ears.
I will bring foorth the blinde people, and they shall haue eyes, and the deafe, and they shall haue eares.
Bring out the people who are blind, even though they have eyes,And the deaf, even though they have ears.
Bring out a people who have eyes but are blind, and who have ears but are deaf.
The Lord said: Bring my people together. They have eyes and ears, but they can't see or hear.
Bring forward the people who are blind but have eyes, also the deaf who have ears.
Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.
"Bring out the people who have eyes but are blind. Bring out the people who have ears but are deaf.
Bring forth the blind people who have eyes, and the deaf who have ears.
God says, "Summon my people to court. They have eyes, but they are blind; they have ears, but they are deaf!
Bring out the people blind yet with eyes, and deaf, though they have ears.
Bring out the blind people, yet there are eyes; and the deaf, yet there are ears to him.
Bringe forth that people, whether they haue eyes or be blynde, deaf or haue eares.
Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.
Send out the blind people who have eyes, and those who have ears, but they are shut.
The blind people that have eyes shall be brought forth, and the deaf that have ears.
Bring foorth the blinde people, that haue eyes; and the deafe that haue eares.
Bring foorth that people whiche is blinde and yet hath eyes, whiche are deafe although they haue eares.
Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.
Lede thou forth the blynde puple, and hauynge iyen; the deef puple, and eeris ben to it.
Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.
Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.
Bring out the people who are blind, even though they have eyes, those who are deaf, even though they have ears!
Bring out the blind people who have eyes, And the deaf who have ears.
Bring out the people who have eyes but are blind, who have ears but are deaf.
Bring out the people who are blind, even though they have eyes, and those who cannot hear, even though they have ears.
Bring forth the people who are blind, yet have eyes, who are deaf, yet have ears!
Bring forth A blind people that have, eyes, and A deaf, that have, ears.
Bring forth the people that are blind, and have eyes: that are deaf, and have ears.
Bring forth the people who are blind, yet have eyes, who are deaf, yet have ears!
He brought out a blind people who have eyes, And deaf ones who have ears.
Get the blind and deaf out here and ready— the blind (though there's nothing wrong with their eyes) and the deaf (though there's nothing wrong with their ears). Then get the other nations out here and ready. Let's see what they have to say about this, how they account for what's happened. Let them present their expert witnesses and make their case; let them try to convince us what they say is true. "But you are my witnesses." God 's Decree. "You're my handpicked servant So that you'll come to know and trust me, understand both that I am and who I am. Previous to me there was no such thing as a god, nor will there be after me. I, yes I, am God . I'm the only Savior there is. I spoke, I saved, I told you what existed long before these upstart gods appeared on the scene. And you know it, you're my witnesses, you're the evidence." God 's Decree. "Yes, I am God. I've always been God and I always will be God. No one can take anything from me. I make; who can unmake it?"
Bring out the people who are blind, even though they have eyes, And the deaf, even though they have ears.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Isaiah 6:9, Isaiah 42:18-20, Isaiah 44:18-20, Deuteronomy 29:2-4, Jeremiah 5:21, Ezekiel 12:2, 2 Corinthians 4:4-6
Reciprocal: Isaiah 35:5 - the eyes Isaiah 44:9 - their own Isaiah 48:6 - and will Daniel 10:21 - I will Matthew 11:5 - the deaf Luke 7:22 - the deaf Luke 18:43 - he John 9:7 - and came Acts 26:18 - open
Cross-References
Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt; go down thither, and buy for us a little food, that we may live, and not die.
But he said, My son shall not go down with you, because his brother is dead, and he only has been left; and suppose it shall come to pass that he is afflicted by the way by which ye go, then ye shall bring down my old age with sorrow to Hades.
And we said, We shall not be able to go down; but if our younger brother go down with us, we will go down; for we shall not be able to see the man’s face, our younger brother not being with us.
And do thou charge them thus; that they should take for them waggons out of the land of Egypt, for your little ones, and for your wives; and take up your father, and come.
And all the household of Joseph, and his brethren, and all the house of his father, and his kindred; and they left behind the sheep and the oxen in the land of Gesem.
And he said to them, Fear not, I will maintain you, and your families: and he comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.
Honour thy father and thy mother, that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest live long on the good land, which the Lord thy God gives to thee.
And your little ones, who ye said should be a prey, them will I bring into the land; and they shall inherit the land, which ye rejected.
Let Ruben live, and not die; and let him be many in number.
If we should say, Let us go into the city, then there is famine in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit here, then we shall die. Now then come, and let us fall upon the camp of the Syrians: if they should take us alive, then we shall live; and if they should put us to death, then we shall only die.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears,.... The Targum applies this to the bringing of the people of Israel out of Egypt; and others understand it of their deliverance from the Babylonish captivity; and some of the exclusion of them from the kingdom of heaven, and casting them into outward darkness, according to Matthew 8:12, but it is rather to be understood of the conviction of them; though better of the Gentiles, and of the enlightening of them, who before were blind; and causing them to hear, who before were deaf to spiritual things, agreeably to what goes before. It seems best to consider the words as a summons to the Heathens uncalled, to the Roman Pagan empire, to come forth and appear, who were as blind and deaf as the idols they worshipped, and plead their cause, agreeably to what follows.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Bring forth the blind people - Many have understood this of the Jews. So Vitringa, Rosenmuller, Grotius, and others understand it. But Lowth, more correctly, regards it as referring to the Gentiles. It is designed as an argument to show the superiority of God over all idols, and to demonstrate that he was able to deliver his people from captivity and exile. He appeals, therefore Isaiah 43:9, to his own people in proof of his divinity and power. None of the pagan Isaiah 43:8 had been able to predict future events, none of the pagan gods, therefore, could save; but Yahweh, who had so often foretold events that were fulfilled, was able to deliver, and of that fact his own people had had abundant evidence.
That have eyes - They had natural faculties to see and know God (compare Romans 1:20), but they had not improved them, and they had, therefore, run into the sin and folly of idolatry. The phrase ‘bring forth,’ implies a solemn appeal made by God to them to enter into an argument on the subject (compare the note at Isaiah 41:1).
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Isaiah 43:8. Bring forth the blind people that have eyes - "Bring forth the people, blind, although they have eyes"] I understand this of the Gentiles, as the verse following, not of the Jews. Their natural faculties, if they had made a proper use of them, must have led them to the knowledge of the being and attributes of the one true God; "for his eternal power and Godhead," if well attended to, are clearly seen in his works, (Romans 1:20,) and would have preserved them from running into the folly and absurdity of worshipping idols. They are here challenged to produce the evidence of the power and foreknowledge of their idol gods; and the Jews are just afterwards, Isaiah 43:10, appealed to as witnesses for God in this cause, therefore these latter cannot here be meant by the people blind with eyes and deaf with ears.
