Isaiah 42:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.

Open

To bring

General references

Exodus 4:11

Bible References

Open

And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will cause them to walk in paths that they have not known; I will make darkness light before them and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them and not forsake them.

And in that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see in the midst of darkness, and of gross darkness.

Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.

The LORD opens the eyes of the blind; the LORD raises those that are bowed down; the LORD loves the righteous:

The blind receive their 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.

Then he opened their understanding that they might understand the scriptures

And Jesus said, For judgment I have come into this world, that those who do not see might see and that those who see might be blinded.

to open their eyes and to turn them from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive remission of sins and inheritance among those who are sanctified by the faith that is in me.

For the God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts to bring forth the light of the knowledge of the clarity of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;

I counsel thee to buy of me gold refined in the fire, that thou may be made rich; and clothed in white raiment, so that the shame of thy nakedness not be uncovered; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou may see.

To bring

Therefore this people is robbed and spoiled; all of them shall be snared in holes and hid in prison houses; they shall be for a prey, and no one delivers; for a spoil, and no one saith, Restore.

The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light; those that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them has the light shined.

that thou may say to the prisoners, Go forth; and unto those that are in darkness, Show yourselves. Upon the ways shall they be fed, and upon all the high places shall be their pastures.

The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me because the LORD has anointed me; he has sent me to preach good tidings unto those who are cast down; to bind up the wounds of the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those that are bound;

Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and in irons,

He who does justice unto the oppressed; who gives bread to the hungry. The LORD looses the prisoners:

As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have taken thy prisoners out of the pit in which there is no water.

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those that are broken,

and that they may become converted out of the snare of the devil, in which they are captive to do his will.

Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same, that through death he might destroy him that had the empire of death, that is, the devil,

But ye are the chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, an acquired people, that ye should show forth the virtues of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.

General references

And the LORD said unto him, Who has made man's mouth? Or who makes the dumb or the deaf or the seeing or the blind? Am not I the LORD?