'Deaf' in the Bible
The Lord said to him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Or who makes him mute or deaf, or seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?
You shall not curse a deaf man, nor place a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall revere your God; I am the Lord.
A Psalm of David.To You, O Lord, I call;My rock, do not be deaf to me,For if You are silent to me,I will become like those who go down to the pit.
But I, like a deaf man, do not hear;And I am like a mute man who does not open his mouth.
They have venom like the venom of a serpent;Like a deaf cobra that stops up its ear,
On that day the deaf will hear words of a book,And out of their gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind will see.
Then the eyes of the blind will be openedAnd the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.
Hear, you deaf!And look, you blind, that you may see.
Who is blind but My servant,Or so deaf as My messenger whom I send?Who is so blind as he that is at peace with Me,Or so blind as the servant of the Lord?
Bring out the people who are blind, even though they have eyes,And the deaf, even though they have ears.
Nations will see and be ashamedOf all their might.They will put their hand on their mouth,Their ears will be deaf.
the blind receive sight and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
They *brought to Him one who was deaf and spoke with difficulty, and they *implored Him to lay His hand on him.
They were utterly astonished, saying, “He has done all things well; He makes even the deaf to hear and the mute to speak.”
When Jesus saw that a crowd was rapidly gathering, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You deaf and mute spirit, I command you, come out of him and do not enter him again.”
And He answered and said to them, “Go and report to John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, the poor have the gospel preached to them.