Isaiah Chapter 35 verse 5 Holy Bible
Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
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Then the eyes of the blind will see, and the ears which are stopped will be open.
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Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf be unstopped;
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Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
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Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
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Then opened are eyes of the blind, And ears of the deaf are unstopped,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 5, 6. - Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened. In the literal sense, our Lord claims these prophecies to himself and his earthly career, when he says to the disciples of John the Baptist, "Go and show John those things which ye do hear and see, the blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear" (Matthew 11:4, 5); but they have doubtless a further spiritual sense, in which they belong to the whole period of his mediatorial kingdom, and are correlative to former utterances of the prophet, in which the blinded eyes and deaf ears and stammering tongues of God's people had been spoken of and made the subject of complaint (see Isaiah 6:10; Isaiah 29:10, etc.). Our Lord's miracles of bodily healing, performed during the three years of his earthly ministry, were types and foreshadowings of those far more precious miracles of spiritual healing, which the great Physician is ever performing on the sick and infirm of his Church, by opening the eyes of their understandings, and unstopping the deaf ears of their hearts, and loosening the strings of their tongues to hymn his praise, and stirring their paralyzed spiritual natures to active exertions in his service. Doubtless Isaiah, or the Spirit which guided him, intended to point to both these classes of miracles, and not to one of them only, as characteristic of the Messiah's kingdom.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(5, 6) Then the eyes of the blind shall . . .--The words are obviously to be interpreted, like those that precede them, and Isaiah 29:18, of spiritual infirmities. If they seem to find a literal fulfilment in the miracles of the Christ, it is, as it were, ex abundante, and as a pledge and earnest of something beyond themselves.
