ESV Reformation Study Bible – Isa 42:7
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Isa 42:7

42:7 to open . . . darkness. The Babylonian exile is described as a kind of dark prison. Israel’s salvation from exile prefigures a spiritual deliverance through Christ from the blindness, bondage, and darkness of sin (5:30; 29:18; 51:14 and notes).