Isaiah Chapter 42 verse 7 Holy Bible
to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison-house.
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To give eyes to the blind, to make free the prisoners from the prison, to let out those who are shut up in the dark.
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to open the blind eyes, to bring forth the prisoner from the prison, them that sit in darkness out of the house of restraint.
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To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
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to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison-house.
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To open the eyes of the blind, To bring forth from prison the bound one, From the house of restraint those sitting in darkness.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 7. - To open the blind eyes. The Messiah was to cure both physical and. spiritual blindness (see Isaiah 29:18; Isaiah 32:3; Isaiah 35:5, etc.). Here it is spiritual blindness that is specially intended, as appears both by the symbolic language of the two conjoined clauses, and by the comment of vers. 16-19. To bring out the prisoners from the prison; rather, to bring out prisoners. To deliver from the bondage of sin such as are its slaves, and shut up in its prison-houses. The promise is general, but, like all spiritual promises, conditioned by the willingness of those who are its objects to avail themselves of it. Them that sit in darkness (comp. Isaiah 9:2).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(7) To open the blind eyes.--The prophet must have felt the contrast between this and his own mission (Isaiah 6:10). The words all point to spiritual blessings. (Comp. St. Paul's call in Acts 26:18.) The "prison" is that of the selfishness and sin which hinder men from being truly free. In the "prisoners of hope" of Zechariah 9:11, and the "spirits in prison" of 1Peter 3:18, we have different aspects of the same thought.
