Isaiah 35:5
3 Strengthen the limp hands and steady the feeble knees!
4 Say to those with anxious hearts: “Be strong, do not fear! Behold, your God will come with vengeance. With divine retribution He will come to save you.”
Then the eyes of the blind will be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped.
6 Then the lame will leap like a deer and the mute tongue will shout for joy. For waters will gush forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.
7 The parched ground will become a pool, the thirsty land springs of water. In the haunt where jackals once lay, there will be grass and reeds and papyrus.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Then the eyes of the blind will be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped.
- KJV
- Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
- WEB
- Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.
- ASV
- Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
- DARBY
- Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf be unstopped;
- BLB
- Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped;
- ÅB
- Da skal de blindes øyne åpnes, og de døves ører åpnes;
- OTB
- På den tiden skal de blindes øyne bli åpnet, og de døves ører skal bli renset.
- B1930
- Da skal de blindes øine åpnes, og de døves ører oplates;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 42:6–7
“I, the LORD, have called you for a righteous purpose, and I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and appoint you to be a covenant for the people and a light to the nations,
Read in contextLuke 7:20–23
When the men came to Jesus, they said, “John the Baptist sent us to ask, ‘Are You the One who was to come, or should we look for someone else?’”
Read in contextIsaiah 29:18
On that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of the deep darkness the eyes of the blind will see.
Read in contextMatthew 11:3–5
to ask Him, “Are You the One who was to come, or should we look for someone else?”
Read in contextIsaiah 32:3–4
Then the eyes of those who see will no longer be closed, and the ears of those who hear will listen.
Read in contextPsalms 146:8
the LORD opens the eyes of the blind, the LORD lifts those who are weighed down, the LORD loves the righteous.
Read in contextJohn 9:39
Then Jesus declared, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind may see and those who see may become blind.”
Read in contextIsaiah 50:4
The Lord GOD has given Me the tongue of discipleship, to sustain the weary with a word. He awakens Me morning by morning; He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple.
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