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

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

Then blind eyes will open, deaf ears will hear.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.