Israel’s Blindness and Deafness

18 “Listen, you deaf!
Look, you blind, so that you may see.(A)
19 Who is blind but my servant,(B)
or deaf like my messenger I am sending?
Who is blind like my dedicated one,[a]
or blind like the servant of the Lord?
20 Though seeing many things,[b] you pay no attention.
Though his ears are open, he does not listen.”(C)

21 Because of his righteousness, the Lord was pleased
to magnify his instruction and make it glorious.
22 But this is a people plundered and looted,
all of them trapped in holes
or imprisoned in dungeons.
They have become plunder(D)
with no one to rescue them
and loot, with no one saying, “Give it back!”

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Notas al pie

  1. 42:19 Hb obscure
  2. 42:20 Alt Hb tradition reads You see many things;

God Rebukes Israel

18 “Listen, you deaf people,
    and look up, you blind people, so you may see!
19 Who is blind except my servant,
    or deaf like my messenger I am sending?
Who is blind like the one committed to me,
    or blind like the Lord’s servant?
20 You’ve seen[a] many things, but you pay no[b] attention.
    His ears are open,[c] but he doesn’t listen.
21 The Lord was pleased, for the sake of his vindication,
    that he should magnify his Law and make it glorious.
22 But this is a people who have been robbed and plundered,
    all of them trapped in pits
        or hidden away in prisons.[d]
They have become prey, with no one to rescue them;
    they have been made loot, with no one to say, ‘Send them back!’

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Notas al pie

  1. Isaiah 42:20 So 1QIsaa MT; MTqere reads To see (or He sees )
  2. Isaiah 42:20 So 1QIsaa MT LXX; MTmss read he pays no
  3. Isaiah 42:20 So 1QIsaa; MT reads to open; or are open
  4. Isaiah 42:22 So 1QIsaa MT LXX; 4QIsag reads prison