My servant is truly blind, my messenger is truly deaf. My covenant partner, the servant of the Lord, is truly blind.

Make the hearts of these people calloused; make their ears deaf and their eyes blind! Otherwise they might see with their eyes and hear with their ears, their hearts might understand and they might repent and be healed."

Eyes will no longer be blind and ears will be attentive.

Then blind eyes will open, deaf ears will hear.

You will be shocked and amazed! You are totally blind! They are drunk, but not because of wine; they stagger, but not because of beer.

At that time the deaf will be able to hear words read from a scroll, and the eyes of the blind will be able to see through deep darkness.

All their watchmen are blind, they are unaware. All of them are like mute dogs, unable to bark. They pant, lie down, and love to snooze.

We grope along the wall like the blind, we grope like those who cannot see; we stumble at noontime as if it were evening. Though others are strong, we are like dead men.

to open blind eyes, to release prisoners from dungeons, those who live in darkness from prisons.

I will lead the blind along an unfamiliar way; I will guide them down paths they have never traveled. I will turn the darkness in front of them into light, and level out the rough ground. This is what I will do for them. I will not abandon them.

"Listen, you deaf ones! Take notice, you blind ones!

Bring out the people who are blind, even though they have eyes, those who are deaf, even though they have ears!

They do not comprehend or understand, for their eyes are blind and cannot see; their minds do not discern.