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I will tell the north: Give my people to me. I will tell the south: Don’t keep my people in prison. Bring my sons and daughters to me from the faraway places. Bring to me all the people who are mine—the people who have my name. I made them for myself. I made them, and they are mine.

“Bring out the people who have eyes but are blind. Bring out the people who have ears but are deaf.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 43:8 blind … deaf This probably means the Israelites who would not believe God. See Isa. 6:9-10.

I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’
    and to the south,(A) ‘Do not hold them back.’
Bring my sons from afar
    and my daughters(B) from the ends of the earth(C)
everyone who is called by my name,(D)
    whom I created(E) for my glory,(F)
    whom I formed and made.(G)

Lead out those who have eyes but are blind,(H)
    who have ears but are deaf.(I)

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