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