Verse 19
Isaiah 42:19
World English Bible
19
Who is blind, but my servant?
Or who is as deaf as my messenger whom I send?
Who is as blind as he who is at peace,
and as blind as Yahweh’s servant?
Original Language Text
hebrew
מִ֤י עִוֵּר֙ כִּ֣י אִם עַבְדִּ֔/י וְ/חֵרֵ֖שׁ כְּ/מַלְאָכִ֣/י אֶשְׁלָ֑ח מִ֤י עִוֵּר֙ כִּ/מְשֻׁלָּ֔ם וְ/עִוֵּ֖ר כְּ/עֶ֥בֶד יְהוָֽה
English Translation
Who is blind except my servant, or deaf like my messenger whom I send? Who is blind like the perfect one, and blind like the servant of the Lord?
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Chapter 42 Context
1
“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold;
my chosen, in whom my soul delights—
I have put my Spirit on him...
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2
He will not shout,
nor raise his voice,
nor cause it to be heard in the street.
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3
He won’t break a bruised reed.
He won’t quench a dimly burning wick.
He will faithfully bring justic...
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4
He will not fail nor be discouraged,
until he has set justice in the earth,
and the islands will wai...
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5
Thus says God (Elohim) Yahweh,
he who created the heavens and stretched them out,
he who spread out...
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6
“I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness,
and will hold your hand,
and will keep you,
and make y...
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7
to open the blind eyes,
to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon,
and those who sit in darkness out...
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8
“I am Yahweh.
That is my name.
I will not give my glory to another,
nor my praise to engraved images...
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9
Behold, the former things have happened,
and I declare new things.
I tell you about them before they...
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10
Sing to Yahweh a new song,
and his praise from the end of the earth,
you who go down to the sea,
and...
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11
Let the wilderness and its cities raise their voices,
with the villages that Kedar inhabits.
Let the...
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12
Let them give glory to Yahweh,
and declare his praise in the islands.
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13
Yahweh will go out like a mighty man.
He will stir up zeal like a man of war.
He will raise a war cr...
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14
“I have been silent a long time.
I have been quiet and restrained myself.
Now I will cry out like a...
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15
I will destroy mountains and hills,
and dry up all their herbs.
I will make the rivers islands,
and...
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16
I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know.
I will lead them in paths that they don’t know...
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17
“Those who trust in engraved images,
who tell molten images,
‘You are our gods’
will be turned back....
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18
“Hear, you deaf,
and look, you blind,
that you may see.
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19
Who is blind, but my servant?
Or who is as deaf as my messenger whom I send?
Who is as blind as he w...
20
You see many things, but don’t observe.
His ears are open, but he doesn’t listen.
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21
It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify the law,
and make it honorable.
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22
But this is a robbed and plundered people.
All of them are snared in holes,
and they are hidden in p...
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23
Who is there among you who will give ear to this?
Who will listen and hear for the time to come?
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24
Who gave Jacob as plunder,
and Israel to the robbers?
Didn’t Yahweh, he against whom we have sinned?...
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25
Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him,
and the strength of battle;
and it set him o...
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