¶The Lord opens the eyes of those who are blind; The Lord raises up those who are bowed down; The Lord loves the righteous.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind. Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down. Yahweh loves the righteous.
- KJV The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth 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.
- 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 145:14Yahweh upholds all who fall, and raises up all those who are bowed down.
- Ps 11:7For Yahweh is righteous. He loves righteousness. The upright shall see his face.
- Acts 26:18to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
- Matt 9:30Their eyes were opened. Jesus strictly commanded them, saying, “See that no one knows about this.”
- Isa 35:5Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.
- Eph 1:18having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
- 2 Cor 7:6Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
- Luke 13:11–13Behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and she was bent over, and could in no way straighten herself up.
- Matt 11:5the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.
- John 16:27for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God.
- Isa 42:16I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.
- 1 Pet 2:9But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
- John 14:21–23One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”
- Ps 147:6Yahweh upholds the humble. He brings the wicked down to the ground.
- Deut 33:3Yes, he loves the people. All his saints are in your hand. They sat down at your feet. Each receives your words.
- John 9:7–33and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing.
- Isa 42:18“Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see.
- Luke 18:41–42“What do you want me to do?” He said, “Lord, that I may see again.”
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