Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Hear, ye deaf, and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
New American Standard Bible
And look, you blind, that you may see.
King James Version
Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
Holman Bible
Look, you blind, so that you may see.
International Standard Version
"Listen, you deaf people, and look up, you blind people, so you may see!
American Standard Version
Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
Amplified
Hear, you deaf!
And look, you blind, that you may see.
Bible in Basic English
Give ear, you whose ears are shut; and let your eyes be open, you blind, so that you may see.
Darby Translation
Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
Julia Smith Translation
Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, to see.
King James 2000
Hear, you deaf; and look, you blind, that you may see.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Deaf people, listen! And blind people, look to see!
Modern King James verseion
Hear, deaf ones; and blind ones look to see.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Hear, O ye deaf men, and sharpen your sights to see, O ye blind!
NET Bible
"Listen, you deaf ones! Take notice, you blind ones!
New Heart English Bible
"Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see.
The Emphasized Bible
Ye deaf hear! And ye blind look around that ye may see, Who is blind if not my Servant? Or deaf, like, my messenger whom I send?
Webster
Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
World English Bible
"Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see.
Youngs Literal Translation
Ye deaf, hear; and ye blind, look to see.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 42:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Blind And Deaf Israel
17 They shall be turned back, they shall be utterly put to shame, who trust in graven images, who say to molten images, Ye are our gods. 18 Hear, ye deaf, and look, ye blind, that ye may see. 19 Who is blind, but my servant, or deaf, as my messenger that I send? Who is blind as he who is at peace [with me], and blind as LORD's servant?
Phrases
Cross References
Isaiah 29:18
And in that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness.
Exodus 4:11
And LORD said to him, Who has made man's mouth? Or who makes [a man] dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, LORD?
Proverbs 20:12
The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, LORD has made even both of them.
Isaiah 35:5
Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
Isaiah 43:8
Bring forth the blind people who have eyes, and the deaf who have ears.
Mark 7:34-37
And having looked up to heaven, he sighed, and says to him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.
Luke 7:22
And having answered, Jesus said to them, After going, report to John the things that ye saw and heard: the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, the poor are preached good-new
Revelation 3:17-18
Because thou say, I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing, and do not know that thou are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.