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To open the eyes of the blind,
    to bring out prisoners from confinement,
    and from the dungeon, those who live in darkness.

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to open eyes that are blind,(A)
    to free(B) captives from prison(C)
    and to release from the dungeon those who sit in darkness.(D)

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22 This is a people[a] plundered and despoiled,
    all of them trapped in holes,
    hidden away in prisons.
They are taken as plunder, with no one to rescue them,
    as spoil, with no one to say, “Give back!”

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Footnotes

  1. 42:22 A people: Israel in exile.

22 But this is a people plundered(A) and looted,
    all of them trapped in pits(B)
    or hidden away in prisons.(C)
They have become plunder,
    with no one to rescue them;(D)
they have been made loot,
    with no one to say, “Send them back.”

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If they are bound with fetters,
    held fast by bonds of affliction,
He lets them know what they have done,
    and how arrogant are their sins.

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But if people are bound in chains,(A)
    held fast by cords of affliction,(B)
he tells them what they have done—
    that they have sinned arrogantly.(C)

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25 Because you disdained all my counsel,
    and my reproof you ignored—

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25 since you disregard all my advice
    and do not accept my rebuke,

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