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- Isaiah
- Chapter 43
- Verse 8
Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.
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Gill's Exposition
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…
Barnes' Notes
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.…
God here challenges the worshippers of idols to produce such proofs of the divinity of their false gods as even this very instance (to go no further) of the redemption of the Jews out of Babylon…
Another imaginary judgement scene (cf. ch. Isa 41:1-4; Isa 41:21-28), in which Israel appears as Jehovah's witness to the truth of His prophecies.
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