The word “Who is blind, but my servant?”
소경이 누구냐 내 종이 아니냐 하는 말씀
Isaiah 42:18–25: the text says, “Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see. Who is blind, but my servant? Or who is as deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is as blind as he who is at peace, and as blind as the LORD’s servant? You see many things, but don’t observe. His ears are open, but he doesn’t listen. It pleased the LORD, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify the law and make it honorable. But this is a robbed and plundered people. All of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prisons. They have become captives, and no one delivers, and a plunder, and no one says, ‘Restore them!’ Who is there among you who will give ear to this? Who will listen and hear for the time to come? Who gave Jacob as plunder, and Israel to the robbers? Didn’t the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in his ways, and they disobeyed his law. Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him, and the strength of battle. It set him on fire all around, but he didn’t know. It burned him, but he didn’t take it to heart.” These verses carry no formula naming who speaks, and the text does not say who “my servant” and “my messenger whom I send” of 42:19 are. The Korean Revised Version reads at 42:19 나와 친한 자 (in the Korean’s words, the one who is close to me), where WEB reads “he who is at peace”; at 42:20 it names no other subject after 네가 (네가 많은 것을 볼찌라도 유의치 아니하며 귀는 밝을찌라도 듣지 아니하는도다), where WEB goes on “His ears are open, but he doesn’t listen”; it names the people at 42:24 (백성들이 그 길로 행치 아니하며), where WEB reads “they would not walk in his ways”; and at 42:25 it names the LORD and Israel (여호와께서 맹렬한 진노와 전쟁의 위력으로 이스라엘에게 베푸시매), where WEB reads “he poured the fierceness of his anger on him”.
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- ISA 42:18–25, engwebp
18“Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see.
19Who is blind, but my servant? Or who is as deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is as blind as he who is at peace, and as blind as the LORD’s servant?
20You see many things, but don’t observe. His ears are open, but he doesn’t listen.
21It pleased the LORD, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify the law and make it honorable.
22But this is a robbed and plundered people. All of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prisons. They have become captives, and no one delivers, and a plunder, and no one says, ‘Restore them!’
23Who is there among you who will give ear to this? Who will listen and hear for the time to come?
24Who gave Jacob as plunder, and Israel to the robbers? Didn’t the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in his ways, and they disobeyed his law.
25Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him, and the strength of battle. It set him on fire all around, but he didn’t know. It burned him, but he didn’t take it to heart.”
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[Bibliadatum entry report] Entry: The word “Who is blind, but my servant?” (event-isa-42-who-is-blind-but-my-servant) Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/event/isa-42-who-is-blind-but-my-servant Current wording: Isaiah 42:18–25: the text says, “Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see. Who is blind, but my servant? Or who is as deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is as blind as he who is at peace, and as blind as the LORD’s servant? You see many things, but don’t observe. His ears are open, but he doesn’t listen. It pleased the LORD, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify the law and make it honorable. But this is a robbed and plundered people. All of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prisons. They have become captives, and no one delivers, and a plunder, and no one says, ‘Restore them!’ Who is there among you who will give ear to this? Who will listen and hear for the time to come? Who gave Jacob as plunder, and Israel to the robbers? Didn’t the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in his ways, and they disobeyed his law. Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him, and the strength of battle. It set him on fire all around, but he didn’t know. It burned him, but he didn’t take it to heart.” These verses carry no formula naming who speaks, and the text does not say who “my servant” and “my messenger whom I send” of 42:19 are. The Korean Revised Version reads at 42:19 나와 친한 자 (in the Korean’s words, the one who is close to me), where WEB reads “he who is at peace”; at 42:20 it names no other subject after 네가 (네가 많은 것을 볼찌라도 유의치 아니하며 귀는 밝을찌라도 듣지 아니하는도다), where WEB goes on “His ears are open, but he doesn’t listen”; it names the people at 42:24 (백성들이 그 길로 행치 아니하며), where WEB reads “they would not walk in his ways”; and at 42:25 it names the LORD and Israel (여호와께서 맹렬한 진노와 전쟁의 위력으로 이스라엘에게 베푸시매), where WEB reads “he poured the fierceness of his anger on him”. Cited evidence: ISA 42:18–25, engwebp Review state: ai-assisted / human-review-pending What looks wrong: (not written yet) --- This collection records what the text says and does not settle interpretation. A report about a reading that divides opinion may be registered as an unresolved issue rather than corrected.