Isaiah 35:5

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Isaiah 35:3–7 · Berean Standard Bible

3 Strengthen the limp hands and steady the feeble knees!

4 Say to those with anxious hearts: “Be strong, do not fear! Behold, your God will come with vengeance. With divine retribution He will come to save you.”

5 Then the eyes of the blind will be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped.

6 Then the lame will leap like a deer and the mute tongue will shout for joy. For waters will gush forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.

7 The parched ground will become a pool, the thirsty land springs of water. In the haunt where jackals once lay, there will be grass and reeds and papyrus.

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Isaiah 29:18

On that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of the deep darkness the eyes of the blind will see.

Isaiah 32:3

Then the eyes of those who see will no longer be closed, and the ears of those who hear will listen.

Isaiah 32:4

The mind of the rash will know and understand, and the stammering tongue will speak clearly and fluently.

Isaiah 42:6

“I, the LORD, have called you for a righteous purpose, and I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and appoint you to be a covenant for the people and a light to the nations,

Isaiah 42:7

to open the eyes of the blind, to bring prisoners out of the dungeon and those sitting in darkness out from the prison house.

Isaiah 42:16

I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.

Isaiah 43:8

Bring out a people who have eyes but are blind, and who have ears but are deaf.

Psalms 146:8

the LORD opens the eyes of the blind, the LORD lifts those who are weighed down, the LORD loves the righteous.

Matthew 9:27

As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed Him, crying out, “Have mercy on us, Son of David!”

Matthew 9:28

After Jesus had entered the house, the blind men came to Him. “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” He asked. “Yes, Lord,” they answered.

Matthew 9:29

Then He touched their eyes and said, “According to your faith will it be done to you.”

Matthew 9:30

And their eyes were opened. Jesus warned them sternly, “See that no one finds out about this!”

Matthew 11:3

to ask Him, “Are You the One who was to come, or should we look for someone else?”

Matthew 11:4

Jesus replied, “Go back and report to John what you hear and see:

Matthew 11:5

The blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor.

Matthew 12:22

Then a demon-possessed man who was blind and mute was brought to Jesus, and He healed the man so that he could speak and see.

Matthew 20:30

And there were two blind men sitting beside the road. When they heard that Jesus was passing by, they cried out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!”

Matthew 20:31

The crowd admonished them to be silent, but they cried out all the louder, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!”

Matthew 20:32

Jesus stopped and called them. “What do you want Me to do for you?” He asked.

Matthew 20:33

“Lord,” they answered, “let our eyes be opened.”

Matthew 20:34

Moved with compassion, Jesus touched their eyes, and at once they received their sight and followed Him.

Matthew 21:14

The blind and the lame came to Him at the temple, and He healed them.

Mark 8:22

When they arrived at Bethsaida, some people brought a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him.

Mark 8:23

So He took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village. Then He spit on the man’s eyes and placed His hands on him. “Can you see anything?” He asked.

Mark 8:24

The man looked up and said, “I can see the people, but they look like trees walking around.”

Mark 8:25

Once again Jesus placed His hands on the man’s eyes, and when he opened them his sight was restored, and he could see everything clearly.

Luke 4:18

“The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed,

John 9:1

Now as Jesus was passing by, He saw a man blind from birth,

John 9:2

and His disciples asked Him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

John 9:3

Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but this happened so that the works of God would be displayed in him.

John 9:4

While it is daytime, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work.

John 9:5

While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

John 9:6

When Jesus had said this, He spit on the ground, made some mud, and applied it to the man’s eyes.

John 9:7

Then He told him, “Go, wash in the Pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So the man went and washed, and came back seeing.

John 9:39

Then Jesus declared, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind may see and those who see may become blind.”

John 11:37

But some of them asked, “Could not this man who opened the eyes of the blind also have kept Lazarus from dying?”

Acts 9:17

So Ananias went to the house, and when he arrived, he placed his hands on Saul. “Brother Saul,” he said, “the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you were coming here, has sent me so that you may see again and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”

Acts 9:18

At that instant, something like scales fell from Saul’s eyes, and his sight was restored. He got up and was baptized,

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’

Ephesians 1:17

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in your knowledge of Him.

Ephesians 1:18

I ask that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know the hope of His calling, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints,

Ephesians 5:14

So it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

Isaiah 48:8

You have never heard; you have never understood; for a long time your ears have not been open. For I knew how deceitful you are; you have been called a rebel from birth.

Exodus 4:11

And the LORD said to him, “Who gave man his mouth? Or who makes the mute or the deaf, the sighted or the blind? Is it not I, the LORD?

Job 33:16

He opens their ears and terrifies them with warnings

Proverbs 20:12

Ears that hear and eyes that see— the LORD has made them both.

Jeremiah 6:10

To whom can I give this warning? Who will listen to me? Look, their ears are closed, so they cannot hear. See, the word of the LORD has become offensive to them; they find no pleasure in it.

Mark 7:32

Some people brought to Him a man who was deaf and hardly able to speak, and they begged Jesus to place His hand on him.

Mark 7:33

So Jesus took him aside privately, away from the crowd, and put His fingers into the man’s ears. Then He spit and touched the man’s tongue.

Mark 7:34

And looking up to heaven, He sighed deeply and said to him, “Ephphatha!” (which means, “Be opened!”).

Mark 7:35

Immediately the man’s ears were opened and his tongue was released, and he began to speak plainly.

Mark 7:36

Jesus ordered them not to tell anyone. But the more He ordered them, the more widely they proclaimed it.

Mark 7:37

The people were utterly astonished and said, “He has done all things well! He makes even the deaf hear and the mute speak!”

Mark 9:25

When Jesus saw that a crowd had come running, He rebuked the unclean spirit. “You deaf and mute spirit,” He said, “I command you to come out and never enter him again.”

Mark 9:26

After shrieking and convulsing him violently, the spirit came out. The boy became like a corpse, so that many said, “He is dead.”

Luke 7:20

When the men came to Jesus, they said, “John the Baptist sent us to ask, ‘Are You the One who was to come, or should we look for someone else?’”

Luke 7:21

At that very hour Jesus healed many people of their diseases, afflictions, and evil spirits, and He gave sight to many who were blind.

Luke 7:22

So He replied, “Go back and report to John what you have seen and heard: The blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor.

Luke 7:23

Blessed is the one who does not fall away on account of Me.”