Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Isaiah 42:18
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Isaiah42:18
18. deaf--namely, to the voice of God.
blind--to your duty and interest; wilfully so (Is 42:20). In this they differ from "the blind" (Is 42:16). The Jews are referred to. He had said, God would destroy the heathen idolatry; here he remembers that even Israel, His "servant" (Is 42:19), from whom better things might have been expected, is tainted with this sin.
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