Israel's Failure to Hear and See

18 Hear, you deaf,
    and look, you blind, that you may see!
19 Who is blind but my servant,
    or deaf as my messenger whom I send?
Who is blind as my dedicated one,[a]
    or blind as the servant of the Lord?
20 (A)He sees many things, but does not observe them;
    (B)his ears are open, but he does not hear.
21 The Lord was pleased, for his righteousness' sake,
    to magnify his law and make it glorious.
22 But this is a people plundered and looted;
    they are all of them trapped in holes
    (C)and hidden in prisons;
they have become plunder with none to rescue,
    spoil with none to say, “Restore!”
23 Who among you will give ear to this,
    will attend and listen for the time to come?
24 Who gave up Jacob to the looter,
    and Israel to the plunderers?
Was it not the Lord, against whom we have sinned,
    in whose ways they would not walk,
    and whose law they would not obey?
25 So he poured on him the heat of his anger
    and the might of battle;
it set him on fire all around, (D)but he did not understand;
    it burned him up, (E)but he did not take it to heart.

Israel's Only Savior

43 But now thus says the Lord,
(F)he who created you, O Jacob,
    he who formed you, O Israel:
(G)“Fear not, for I have redeemed you;
    (H)I have called you by name, you are mine.
(I)When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;
    and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you;
(J)when you walk through fire (K)you shall not be burned,
    and the flame shall not consume you.
For (L)I am the Lord your God,
    the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.
(M)I give Egypt as your ransom,
    Cush and (N)Seba in exchange for you.
Because you are precious in my eyes,
    and honored, and I love you,
I give men in return for you,
    peoples in exchange for your life.
(O)Fear not, for I am with you;
    (P)I will bring your offspring from the east,
    and from the west I will gather you.
I will say to the north, Give up,
    and to the south, Do not withhold;
bring (Q)my sons from afar
    and (R)my daughters from the end of the earth,
everyone who is called by my name,
    whom I created for my glory,
    whom I formed and made.”

Bring out (S)the people who are blind, yet have eyes,
    who are deaf, yet have ears!
(T)All the nations gather together,
    and the peoples assemble.
Who among them can declare this,
    and show us the former things?
Let them bring their witnesses to prove them right,
    and let them hear and say, It is true.
10 (U)“You are my witnesses,” declares the Lord,
    “and (V)my servant whom I have chosen,
that you may know and believe me
    and understand that I am he.
(W)Before me no god was formed,
    nor shall there be any after me.
11 (X)I, I am the Lord,
    and besides me there is no savior.
12 I declared and saved and proclaimed,
    when there was no strange god among you;
    and (Y)you are my witnesses,” declares the Lord, “and I am God.
13 Also (Z)henceforth I am he;
    there is none who can deliver from my hand;
    I work, and who can turn it back?”

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 42:19 Or as the one at peace with me

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