⁴ Tell the discouraged ones with anxious heart: Be strong and do not be afraid! God is coming to your rescue! He is coming to punish your enemies. ⁵ Then the eyes of the blind will be opened
And the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.
⁶ The lame will leap and dance, and those who cannot speak will shout for joy. Streams of water will flow through the desert plain.

Phrases

When He Comes

Cross References

Isaiah 29:18

The deaf will be able to hear the words of the book read to them. The blind will be freed from gloom and darkness.

Isaiah 32:3-4

Their eyes and ears will be open to the needs of the people.

Isaiah 42:6-7

I, Jehovah, have called you and have given you power to see that justice is done on earth. I will make a covenant with all peoples and bring light (truth) (light of instruction) (Psalm 27:1) to the nations through you.

Isaiah 42:16

I will lead my blind people by roads they have never traveled. I will turn their darkness into light and make rough country smooth before them. I will keep my promises without fail.

Isaiah 50:4

The Lord Jehovah will teach me what to say, so I will know how to encourage tired people. Morning after morning he will wake me to listen like a student.

Exodus 4:11

Jehovah said to him: Who has made man's mouth? Or who makes him mute or deaf, or seeing or blind? Is it not I, Jehovah?

Job 33:16

he may speak in their ears and terrify them with warnings,

Psalm 146:8

Jehovah opens the eyes of the blind. Jehovah raises up those who are bowed down. Jehovah loves the righteous.

Proverbs 20:12

The hearing ear and the seeing eye, Jehovah made them both.

Isaiah 43:8

Bring the people who are blind but still have eyes, the people who are deaf but still have ears.

Isaiah 48:8

You have never heard about them. You have never known about them. Your ears have never been open to hear them before. I know that you have acted very treacherously and that you have been called a rebel since you were born.

Jeremiah 6:10

To whom can I speak and give warning that they may hear? Their ears are closed and they cannot listen. Behold, the word of Jehovah has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.

Matthew 9:27-30

Jesus left that place and walked along the road. Two blind men followed him. They shouted: Have mercy on us, Son of David!

Matthew 11:3-5

They asked Jesus: Are you the Expected One or should we look for another?

Matthew 12:22

Someone possessed with a demon, blind and dumb was brought to him. He healed him and the dumb man spoke and could see.

Matthew 20:30-34

Two blind men sitting by the side of the road heard Jesus pass by and cried out: Have mercy on us, O Lord, Son of David!

Matthew 21:14

The blind and the crippled came to him in the Temple, and he made them well.

Mark 7:32-37

They brought a deaf man with an impediment in his speech to him and asked him to lay his hands on him.

Mark 8:22-25

They arrived at Bethsaida. A blind man was brought to him with the request to touch him.

Mark 9:25-26

When Jesus saw the people he ordered the unclean spirit to come out of him. He commanded the spirit that caused the loss of voice and hearing to leave and never return to him.

Luke 4:18

The Spirit of Jehovah is upon me. He anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind. To set at liberty those who are bruised.

Luke 7:20-23

When the men found him they said: John the Baptist sent us. Are you the one who comes or should we look for another?

John 9:1-7

He saw a man who was blind from birth.

John 9:39

Jesus said: I came into the world for this judgment that those not seeing may see and those seeing may become blind.

John 11:37

Some of them said: This man opened the eyes of the blind. Could he have prevented this man from dying?

Acts 9:17-18

Ananias went his way. He entered the house and put his hands on him and said, Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, that appeared to you along the road sent me, that you might receive your sight, and be filled with the Holy Spirit.

Acts 26:18

To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God. They may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'

Ephesians 1:17-18

May the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, give you a spirit (mental disposition) of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him.

Ephesians 5:14

For this reason it says: Awake, sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.