Isaiah 42:19

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17 They shall be ^aturned back,
They shall be greatly ashamed,
Who trust in carved images,
Who say to the molded images,
‘You are our gods.’

18 “Hear, you deaf;
And look, you blind, that you may see.

19 ^aWho is blind but My servant,
Or deaf as My messenger whom I send?
Who is blind as he who is perfect,
And blind as the Lord’s servant?

20 Seeing many things, ^abut you do not observe;
Opening the ears, but he does not hear.”

Israel’s Obstinate Disobedience

21 The Lord is well pleased for His righteousness’ sake;
He will exalt the law and make it honorable.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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Isaiah 42:19

As my messenger that I sent "As he to whom I have sent my messengers" - kemalachey eshlach , ut AD quem nuncios meos misi . The Vulgate and Chaldee are almost the only interpreters who render it rightly, in consistence with the rest of the sentence, and in perfect agreement with the Hebrew idiom; according to which the ellipsis is to be thus supplied: kelaasher malachey eshlach ; "As he to whom I have sent my messengers."

As he that is perfect "As he who is perfectly instructed" - See note on Isaiah 44:2 (note).

And blind as the Lord' s servant "And deaf, as the servant of Jehovah" - For veivver , and blind, we must read vecheresh , and deaf: , Symmachus, and so a MS. The mistake is palpable, and the correction self-evident, and admissible though there had been no authority for it.

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Isaiah 44:2
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