Internet Verse Search Commentaries Word Analysis ITL - draft

Isaiah 42:7

Context
NETBible

to open blind eyes, 1  to release prisoners 2  from dungeons, those who live in darkness from prisons.

XREF

Ps 107:10-16; Ps 146:7; Ps 146:8; Isa 9:2; Isa 29:18; Isa 35:5; Isa 42:16; Isa 42:22; Isa 49:9; Isa 61:1; Zec 9:11,12; Mt 11:5; Lu 4:18-21; Lu 24:45; Joh 9:39; Ac 26:18; 2Co 4:6; Eph 1:17,18; 2Ti 2:26; Heb 2:14,15; 1Pe 2:9; Re 3:18

NET © Notes

sn This does not refer to literal physical healing of the blind. As the next two lines suggest, this refers metonymically to freeing captives from their dark prisons where their eyes have grown unaccustomed to light.

sn This does not refer to hardened, dangerous criminals, who would have been executed for their crimes in ancient Near Eastern society. This verse refers to political prisoners or victims of social injustice.



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