Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 43:8
Bring — O ye idolatrous Gentiles, bring forth your false gods, which have eyes but see not, and ears but hear not.
Bring — O ye idolatrous Gentiles, bring forth your false gods, which have eyes but see not, and ears but hear not.
Verse Isaiah 43:8. _BRING FORTH THE BLIND PEOPLE THAT HAVE EYES_ - "Bring forth the people, blind, although they have eyes"] I understand this of the Gentiles, as the verse following, not of the Jews...
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. I...
CHAPTER 43 Jehovah Speaks in Comfort to His People 1. _What Jehovah is and will be to Israel (Isaiah 43:1)_ 2. _Second address to the blind and deaf people (Isaiah 43:8)_ 3. Jehovah deals with their...
ISRAEL CALLED BY YAHWEH AS HIS WITNESS BEFORE THE NATIONS. The scene is again a court of justice. The nations, Yahweh's opponents, are already assembled (read are for let be). Yahweh commands His peop...
THE BLIND PEOPLE. a blind People: i.e. Israel (See Isaiah 6:10; Isaiah 42:19; Isaiah 42:20; Jeremiah 5:21.
_Bring forth_ i.e. not "from exile," but "before the tribunal." The sense demands an imperat., and the Heb. pointing (which gives a perf.) must be altered accordingly. A _blind people that have eyes_...
Another imaginary judgement scene (cf. ch. Isaiah 41:1-4; Isaiah 41:21-28), in which Israel appears as Jehovah's witness to the truth of His prophecies....
BRING FORTH THE BLIND, &C.— Vitringa renders the 9th verse, _Let,_ &c. _Who among them could declare this? Either let them tell us what shall first happen, and bring their witnesses, that they may be...
b. TO BE A PROCLAIMER TEXT: Isaiah 43:8-13 8 Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears. 9 Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the peoples be assembled...
Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears. BRING FORTH THE BLIND PEOPLE THAT HAVE EYES, AND THE DEAF THAT HAVE EARS - Solemn challenge given by God to the nations to...
THE MISSION OF ISRAEL 1-21. The dispersed Israelites shall be ransomed and restored. They are witnesses before the world that Jehovah is the true God. A second and more wonderful exodus is in store f...
BLIND, etc.] see Isaiah 42:18. 9F. Another judgment scene, similar to Isaiah 41:21....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD PROMISES COMFORT TO HIS PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 40 TO 48 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 43 Chapter 42 reminded the people from Israel that they had totally neglec...
These verses again use the picture in words of a court of law, as in Isaiah 41:1-20....
BRING FORTH THE BLIND PEOPLE... — The command comes abruptly, as from a Divine voice, and is, as it were, a reversed echo of Isaiah 42:18. There Israel saw but did not observe, had eyes and yet was bl...
הֹוצִ֥יא עַם ־עִוֵּ֖ר וְ עֵינַ֣יִם יֵ֑שׁ וְ
CHAPTER I THE DATE OF Isaiah 40:1; Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 43:1;...
CHAPTER XVI THE SERVANT OF THE LORD Isaiah 41:8; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 42:18; Isaiah 43:5;...
JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES Isaiah 43:1-13 The magnificent conception of Isaiah 43:1-28 underlies this. We have still the convocation of mankind, summoned to decide whether Jehovah or some idol god shall be...
Following the manifesto, we have in the next three Chapter s a series of messages of Jehovah. The first declares His perpetual purpose for His people. His constant attitude of love is affirmed in prom...
_Ears. Yet will not hear, (Calmet) or who are miraculously healed. (Haydock) --- It seems rather to mean idolatrous nations, (ver. 9.; Calmet) or rebellious Jews. (Forerius) (Houbigant)_...
Some have supposed this to be a challenge to the worshippers of idols; but I humbly conceive, that as these verses follow the account of Him, of whom Jehovah speaketh so gloriously, it is rather a dem...
8._That I may bring out. _The brevity of the words makes the meaning somewhat obscure. Some translate it thus, “I will bring out the blind, and him who hath eyes,” that is, both the blind and them tha...
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...
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 deliveranc...
_Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears._ Ver. 8. _Bring forth the blind people._] Such as were blind and ignorant, but now are enlightened. _ And the deaf._] Such...
_Bring forth the blind people_, &c. O ye idolatrous Gentiles, bring forth your false gods, which have eyes but see not, and ears but hear not. _Let the people be assembled_ To plead the cause of their...
JEHOVAH THE TRUE GOD AND ONLY SAVIOR...
Bring forth the blind people that have eyes and the deaf that have ears, namely, to appear before the tribunal; for in spite of their spiritual blindness the children of Israel have had the opportunit...
8-13 Idolaters are called to appear in defence of their idols. Those who make them, and trust in them, are like unto them. They have the shape and faculties of men; but they have not common sense. Bu...
The sense is either, 1. Bring out of captivity my people who were blind and deaf, but now have their eyes and cars opened by my grace. So this verse relates to the foregoing passages. Or rather, 2. O...
Isaiah 43:8 out H3318 (H8685) blind H5787 people H5971 have H3426 eyes H5869 deaf H2795 ears H241...
GOD DECLARES THAT ONLY HIS PEOPLE CAN BE WITNESSES TO WHAT HE IS (ISAIAH 43:8). Isaiah 43:8 ‘Bring forth the blind people who have eyes, And the deaf people who have ears. Let all the nations be g...
Isaiah 43:1. _But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine._ I cannot p...
Isaiah 43:1. _But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel,_ The Lord reminds us that he first created us, and that he afterwards molded us; we are like J...
CONTENTS: The chosen nation redeemed and restored. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: Israel is God's peculiar people, distinguished from all others, and having the promise that they shall never h...
Isaiah 43:1. _The Lord that created thee, oh Jacob._ Not only in the first creation, but when Sarah, and when Rebecca were barren, I gave them power to become mothers. I have also created and formed t...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 43:1 A RENEWED PROMISE TO ISRAEL OF PROTECTION AND DELIVERANCE. Severe rebuke (Isaiah 42:18) is followed, as so often in I
But yet, God is going to restore them. Chapter 43 gets in the restoration. But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee...
2 Corinthians 4:4; Deuteronomy 29:2; Ezekiel 12:2; Isaiah 42:18;...