(A)the blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers[a] are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and (B)the poor have good news preached to them.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 11:5 Leprosy was a term for several skin diseases; see Leviticus 13

Say to those who have an anxious heart,
    “Be strong; fear not!
(A)Behold, your God
    will come with vengeance,
with the recompense of God.
    He will come and save you.”

(B)Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened,
    and the ears of the deaf unstopped;
(C)then shall the lame man leap like a deer,
    and the tongue of the mute sing for joy.
(D)For waters break forth in the wilderness,
    and streams in the desert;

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