The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind. Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down. Yahweh loves the righteous.
- BSB the LORD opens the eyes of the blind, the LORD lifts those who are weighed down, the LORD loves the righteous.
- NKJV The Lord opens the eyes of the blind; The Lord raises those who are bowed down; The Lord loves the righteous.
- NASB ¶The Lord opens the eyes of those who are blind; The Lord raises up those who are bowed down; The Lord loves the righteous.
- NLT The Lord opens the eyes of the blind. The Lord lifts up those who are weighed down. The Lord loves the godly.
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God opens the eyes of the blind, raises the bowed down, and loves the righteous. He restores the broken and delights in those who walk uprightly.
Overview
God's compassionate works continue: giving sight, lifting the burdened, and loving the righteous. These acts reveal His tender care for the helpless. Jesus literally fulfilled this in healing the blind and lifting the downtrodden, signs that the kingdom had come (Matthew 11:5).
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- Ps 145:14The LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down.
- Ps 11:7For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.
- Acts 26:18To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
- Matt 9:30And their eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them, saying, See that no man know it.
- Isa 35:5Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
- Eph 1:18The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
- 2 Cor 7:6Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
- Luke 13:11–13And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself.
- Matt 11:5The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
- John 16:27For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
- Isa 42:16And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
- 1 Pet 2:9But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
- John 14:21–23He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
- Ps 147:6The LORD lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the ground.
- Deut 33:3Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand: and they sat down at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy words.
- John 9:7–33And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.
- Isa 42:18Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
- Luke 18:41–42Saying, What wilt thou that I shall do unto thee? And he said, Lord, that I may receive my sight.
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