Isaiah 43:8 Cross References - Thomson

⁸ and have brought out a blind people: for their eyes are as if they were blind; and they are deaf, though they have ears.

² Then Moses called all the sons of Israel, and said to them, You have seen all the things which the Lord did in Egypt, before your eyes, to Pharao and his servants, and all his land; ³ those great trials which your eyes have seen, those signs, and those great wonders. ⁴ Now hath not the Lord God given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, even at this day?

⁹ And he said, "Go and say to this people; hearing you shall hear, though you may not understand: and seeing you shall see, though you may not perceive:

¹⁸ [p] Hear, ye deaf; and ye blind, look up that you may see: ¹⁹ [J] Who indeed is blind but my servants? And deaf, but those who rule over them? Even the servants of God are become blind. ²⁰ You have seen again and again but have not regarded: your ears have been opened, but you did not hear.

¹⁸ They had not sense to think; for they were so involved in darkness that they could not see with their eyes, nor understand with their hearts: ¹⁹ nor did any reason in his mind, nor by his understanding recollect, that he had burned half of it in the fire, and on the coals thereof baked cakes, and had roasted flesh and eaten, and of the residue had made an abomination; so they bow themselves down to it. ²⁰ Know thou that their heart is ashes, and they are led astray and none can deliver his soul. Take a view of it, will you not say, "There is indeed a lie in my right hand?"

²¹ [p] Hear these things I beseech you, O foolish and stupid people! [J] They have eyes, but they do not see; ears they have, but they do not hear.

² Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of these unrighteous men, who have eyes to see but do not see; and have ears to hear, but do not hear. Because they are a rebellious house,

⁴ with which the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the disbelieving, that the splendour of the glad tidings of the glory of the Christ, who is an image of God, may not shine upon them. ⁵ For we do not proclaim ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus sake. ⁶ Because it is God, who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who hath shined in our hearts, to give a lustre of the knowledge of the glory of God in the person of Jesus Christ;