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Isaiah 42:16

Isaiah 42:16
And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not,.... The Targum interprets this of the people of Israel, thus,

"I will lead the house of Israel, which are like to the blind, in a way which…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

And I will lead the blind - Having said in the previous verses what he would do to his enemies, God now speaks of his people. He would conduct them to their own land, as a blind people that needed a…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Isaiah 42:13-17

It comes all to one whether we make these verses (as some do) the song itself that is to be sung by the Gentile world or a prophecy of what God will do to make way for the singing of that song, that…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

The prophet hastens on to the gracious issue of God's interposition, the homebringing of the captives through the trackless desert.

the blindhere are hardly the spiritually blind, those who cannot…