<p class="poetry">My servant is truly blind,p> <p class="poetry">my messenger is truly deaf.p> <p class="poetry">My covenant partner,<n id="1" /> the servant of the <sc>Lordsc>, is truly blind.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">I was eyes for the blindp> <p class="poetry">and feet for the lame;p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;Listen, you deaf ones!p> <p class="poetry">Take notice,<n id="1" /> you blind ones!p>

&#8216;Cursed is the one who misleads a blind person on the road.&#8217; Then all the people will say, &#8216;Amen!&#8217;

<p class="poetry">Then blind eyes will open,p> <p class="poetry">deaf ears will hear.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Bring out the people who are blind, even though they have eyes,p> <p class="poetry">those who are deaf, even though they have ears!p>

You must not curse a deaf person or put a stumbling block in front of a blind person.<n id="1" /> You must fear<n id="2" /> your God; I am the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> gives sight to the blind.p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> lifts up all who are bent over.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> loves the godly.p>

<p class="poetry">At that time<n id="1" /> the deaf will be able to hear words read from a scroll,p> <p class="poetry">and the eyes of the blind will be able to see through deep darkness.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">to open blind eyes,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">to release prisoners<n id="2" /> from dungeons,p> <p class="poetry">those who live in darkness from prisons.p>

<p class="poetry">We grope along the wall like the blind,p> <p class="poetry">we grope like those who cannot see;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">we stumble at noontime as if it were evening.p> <p class="poetry">Though others are strong, we are like dead men.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="lamhebrew">&#1504; (<i>Nuni>)p> <p class="poetry">They<n id="1" /> wander blindly<n id="2" /> through the streets,p> <p class="poetry">defiled by the blood they shed,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">while no one dares<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">to touch their garments.p>

<p class="poetry">I will bring distress on the people<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and they will stumble<n id="2" /> like blind men,p> <p class="poetry">for they have sinned against the <sc>Lordsc>.p> <p class="poetry">Their blood will be poured out like dirt;p> <p class="poetry">their flesh<n id="3" /> will be scattered<n id="4" /> like manure.p>

David said on that day, &#8220;Whoever attacks the Jebusites must approach the &#8216;lame&#8217; and the &#8216;blind&#8217; who are David&#8217;s enemies<n id="1" /> by going through the water tunnel.&#8221;<n id="2" /> For this reason it is said, &#8220;The blind and the lame cannot enter the palace.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

Certainly<n id="1" /> no man who has a physical flaw is to approach: a blind man, or one who is lame, or one with a slit nose,<n id="2" /> or a limb too long,

If they have any kind of blemish &#8211; lameness, blindness, or anything else<n id="1" /> &#8211; you may not offer them as a sacrifice to the <sc>Lordsc> your God.

<p class="poetry">All their watchmen<n id="1" /> are blind,p> <p class="poetry">they are unaware.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">All of them are like mute dogs,p> <p class="poetry">unable to bark.p> <p class="poetry">They pant,<n id="3" /> lie down,p> <p class="poetry">and love to snooze.p>

<p class="poetry">Then I will reply,<n id="1" /> &#8216;I will bring them back from the land of the north.p> <p class="poetry">I will gather them in from the distant parts of the earth.p> <p class="poetry">Blind and lame people will come with them,p> <p class="poetry">so will pregnant women and women about to give birth.p> <p class="poetry">A vast throng of people will come back here.p>

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said to him, &#8220;Who gave<n id="1" /> a mouth to man, or who makes a person mute or deaf or seeing or blind? Is it not I, the <sc>Lordsc>?<n id="2" />

You will feel your way along at noon like the blind person does in darkness and you will not succeed in anything you do;<n id="1" /> you will be constantly oppressed and continually robbed, with no one to save you.