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Isaiah 42:19

Who is blind but My servant? the reference here being to Israel itself, or deaf, as My messenger that I sent? not hearing a word of the message which the Lord entrusted to him to be given to the Gentiles. Who is blind as he that is perfect, one whom the Lord had regarded as His friend, and blind as the Lord's servant, this very fact making the blindness almost unexplainable and causing the Lord to refer to it so continually. Cf John 9:41.

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See also Isaiah 42:19 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 42:19. _AS MY MESSENGER THAT I SENT_ - "As he to whom I have sent my messengers"] כמלכי אשלח _kemalachey eshlach_, ut ad quem nuncios meos misi. The _Vulgate_ and _Chaldee_ are almost th...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    WHO IS BLIND, BUT MY SERVANT? - Some of the Jewish expositors suppose that by ‘servant’ here, the prophet himself is intended, who, they suppose is here called blind and deaf by the impious Jews who r...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 42 The True Servant of Jehovah 1. _The Servant of Jehovah and His mission (Isaiah 42:1)_ 2. _His future work among the nations (Isaiah 42:5)_ 3. The future song of redemption glory (Isaiah 42...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ISRAEL'S PITEOUS PLIGHT, A PUNISHMENT FROM YAHWEH. The prophet bids the people, who have not recognised Yahweh's working in their distresses, look beneath the surface. To all appearance they are capti...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    MY SERVANT. This is Israel. See the Structures above; and see note on Isaiah 37:35. Not the same "servant" as in Isaiah 42:1. PERFECT. an intimate friend or trusted one. Hebrew. _me'shullam_ (plural o...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Israel is the blind and deaf nation _par excellence_, because no other nation has been so tested by the opportunity of seeing and hearing (see on Isaiah 42:21). _my messenger_that _I_ SEND (R.V.)] Cf....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    An expostulation with Israel for its insensibility to the privileges it has enjoyed. The passage is of considerable interest for the light which it throws on the sense in which the title "Servant of t...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    WHO IS BLIND, BUT MY SERVANT; &C.— As it might be doubted who were the _blind_ and _deaf_ mentioned in the preceding verse, the prophet here points them out. "I have exhibited (says God) the Gentiles...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    c. SIGHTLESS SERVANTS TEXT: Isaiah 42:18-25 18 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see. 19 Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I send? who is blind as he that i...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the LORD's servant? WHO IS BLIND, BUT MY SERVANT? - namely, Israel. Who of the...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    42:19 trusted, (d-24) Or 'he who is perfect.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE IDEAL SERVANT 1-9. The characteristics and functions of Israel as the ideal Servant of Jehovah. 10-17 A song of praise to Jehovah. 18-25. The deficiencies of the actual Israel, considered as Je...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    PERFECT] RV 'at peace _with me_.'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD PROMISES COMFORT TO HIS PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 40 TO 48 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 42 The *Old Testament calls several people ‘the *Lord’s servant’. Moses is...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    God appointed Isaiah to be his special messenger (a servant who carries a message) to the people in Israel. But, at the same time, God warned Isaiah that the people would not listen (see Isaiah 6:9-10...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    DEAF, AS MY MESSENGER... — The work of the messenger of God had been the ideal of Isaiah, as it was of _the_ servant in whom the ideal was realised (Romans 10:15; Isaiah 42:1). But how could a blind a...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    מִ֤י עִוֵּר֙ כִּ֣י אִם ־עַבְדִּ֔י וְ חֵרֵ֖שׁ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    BOOK 3 THE SERVANT OF THE LORD HAVING completed our survey of the fundamental truths of our prophecy, and studied the subject which forms its immediate and most urgent interest, the deliverance of I...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER I THE DATE OF Isaiah 40:1; Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 43:1;...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XVI THE SERVANT OF THE LORD Isaiah 41:8; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 42:18; Isaiah 43:5;...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    A DEAF AND BLIND MESSENGER Isaiah 42:14-25 There are times in our lives when God seems to hold His peace. Evil is rife, bad men prosper, society lies under the spell of vice. It is only _temporary_,...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The manifesto now presents the great Servant of Jehovah. His person is first described. His manifestation is announced (verse Isaiah 42:1), His mission is declared (verse Isaiah 42:1), His method is d...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Who [is] blind, but my (u) servant? or deaf, as my (x) messenger [that] I sent? who [is] blind as [he that is] (y) perfect, and blind as the LORD'S servant? (u) That is, Israel, which would have most...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Sold. Hebrew Cimshullam, (Haydock) the perfect, or favoured. The Turks call "believers" Musselmans. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Here, as in the former Chapter s, the contrast is drawn between the Lord Jehovah, and the idols of the nations around; and the striking difference which marks the several worshippers is made between t...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _MERCY BLIND_ ‘Who is blind, but My servant? or deaf, as My messenger that I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the Lord’s servant? Seeing many things, but thou observest not; ope...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    19._Who is blind but my servant? _There are some who interpret this verse as if the Prophet were describing the reproaches which wicked men are accustomed to throw out against the prophets; for they r...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 41, 42, AND 43. Chapter 41 begins the historical details which prove this. Who raised up Cyrus to overthrow idolatry? But in the midst of the havoc he made of...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    WHO IS BLIND, BUT MY SERVANT?.... Kimchi, taking the former words to be spoken to the Jews, thinks this is their reply; who will say in answer to it, why do ye call us blind and deaf? who so blind and...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Who [is] blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger [that] I sent? who [is] blind as [he that is] perfect, and blind as the LORD'S servant? Ver. 19. _Who is blind, but my servant?_] Who so blind...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Hear, ye deaf_, &c. O you, whosoever you are, whether Jews or Gentiles, who shall resist this clear light, and obstinately continue in your former errors, attend diligently to my words, and consider...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    18-25 Observe the call given to this people, and the character given of them. Multitudes are ruined for want of observing that which they cannot but see; they perish, not through ignorance, but carel...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    WHO IS BLIND, BUT MY SERVANT? but no people under heaven are so blind as the Jews, who call themselves my servants and people, who will not receive their Messiah, though he be recommended to them with...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 42:19 blind H5787 servant H5650 deaf H2795 messenger H4397 send H7971 (H8799) blind H5787 perfect H7999 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SAD PRESENT STATE OF GOD'S SERVANT, THE SEED OF ABRAHAM (ISAIAH 42:18). The glory of the future is now brought down to earth by a recognition of the present condition of God's servant. In contrast...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Christ, servant of Jehovah. Chastening of Israel and the final restoration. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: A day is coming when all who have contradicted and blasphemed the Gospel of...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 42:1. _Behold my servant._ In the Chaldaic, the Messiah; and so the whole passage is cited from the LXX. Matthew 12:17. All other applications of the word “servant” are superseded. Christ took...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Who is blind, but My Servant?_ THE LORD’S SERVANT BLIND AND DEAF I. CHRIST’S BLINDNESS. How should it be said of the Servant and Messenger of the Lord that He was blind as none other? How should it...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Hear, ye deaf_ DIVINE EXPOSTULATION Thus the Lord expostulates with His ancient people, and thus He has reason to expostulate with us. 1. We are deaf, in a spiritual sense, when we do not attend t...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 42:18 God promises to help his confused people understand that he is their only Savior. ⇐ ⇔

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    BLIND IN THE SUNLIGHT Isaiah 42:18. _Hear, ye deaf, and look, ye blind, &c._ Thus the Lord expostulates with His ancient people, and thus He has reason to expostulate with us. We succeed them, both i...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ISAIAH 42:1 ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE SERVANT OF THE LORD, AND THE WORK WHICH HE WILL PERFORM. There are comparatively few

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now God speaks of another servant. This is His righteous servant, even Jesus Christ. And now Isaiah begins to prophesy concerning Christ, the servant of God. Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine el...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Corinthians 3:14; 2 Corinthians 3:15; 2 Corinthians 4:4; Ezekiel 12:2;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    My servant — The Jews, who will not receive their, Messiah. Messenger — My messengers, the singular number being put for the plural, namely the priests and other teachers whom I have appointed to inst...

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