Isaiah 42:19
Good News Translation
Is anyone more blind than my servant, more deaf than the messenger I send?

New Revised Standard Version
Who is blind but my servant, or deaf like my messenger whom I send? Who is blind like my dedicated one, or blind like the servant of the LORD?

Contemporary English Version
No one is as blind or deaf as his messenger, his chosen servant,

New American Bible
Who is blind but my servant, or deaf like the messenger I send? Who is blind like the one I restore, blind like the servant of the LORD?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, but he to whom I have sent my messengers? Who is blind, but he that is sold? or who is blind, but the servant of the Lord?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, but he to whom I have sent my messengers? Who is blind, but he that is sold? or who is blind, but the servant of the Lord?

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Isaiah 6:9 And he said: Go, and thou shalt say to this people: Hearing, hear, and understand not: and see the vision, and know it not.

Isaiah 29:9-14 Be astonished, and wonder, waver, and stagger: be drunk, and not with wine: stagger, and not with drunkenness. . . .

Isaiah 56:10 His watchmen are all blind, they are all ignorant: dumb dogs not able to bark, seeing vain things, sleeping and loving dreams.

Jeremiah 4:22 For my foolish people have not known me: they are foolish and senseless children: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Jeremiah 5:21 Hear, O foolish people, and without understanding: who have eyes, and see not: and ears, and hear not.

Ezekiel 12:2 Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a provoking house: who have eyes to see, and see not: and ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a provoking house.

Matthew 13:14,15 And the prophecy of Isaias is fulfilled in them, who saith: By hearing you shall hear, and shall not understand: and seeing you shall see, and shall not perceive. . . .

Matthew 15:14-16 Let them alone: they are blind, and leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both fall into the pit. . . .

Matthew 23:16-24 Woe to you, blind guides, that say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but he that shall swear by the gold of the temple is a debtor. . . .

Mark 8:17,18 Which Jesus knowing, saith to them: Why do you reason, because you have no bread? Do you not yet know nor understand? Have you still your heart blinded? . . .

John 7:47-49 The Pharisees therefore answered them: Are you also seduced? . . .

John 9:39,41 And Jesus said: For judgment I am come into this world: that they who see not may see; and they who see may become blind. . . .

John 12:40 He hath blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart and be converted: and I should heal them.

Romans 2:17-23 But if thou art called a Jew and restest in the law and makest thy boast of God, . . .

Romans 11:7-10,25 What then? That which Israel sought, he hath not obtained: but the election hath obtained it. And the rest have been blinded. . . .

2 Corinthians 3:14,15 But their senses were made dull. For, until this present day, the selfsame veil, in the reading of the old testament, remaineth not taken away (because in Christ it is made void). . . .

2 Corinthians 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of unbelievers, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine unto them.

Context
Israel is Deaf and Blind
18Hear, ye deaf, and, ye blind, behold that you may see. 19Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, but he to whom I have sent my messengers? Who is blind, but he that is sold? or who is blind, but the servant of the Lord?20Thou that seest many things, wilt thou not observe them? thou that hast ears open, wilt thou not hear?…
Cross References
Matthew 13:13
Therefore do I speak to them in parables: because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

Isaiah 26:3
The old error is passed away: thou wilt keep peace: peace, because we have hoped in thee.

Isaiah 27:5
Or rather shall it take hold of my strength, shall it make peace with me, shall it make peace with me?

Isaiah 29:18
And in that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book, and out of darkness and obscurity the eyes of the blind shall see.

Isaiah 41:8
But thou Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend:

Isaiah 43:8
Bring forth the people that are blind, and have eyes: that are deaf, and have ears.

Isaiah 44:26
That raise up the word of my servant and perform the counsel of my messengers, who say to Jerusalem: Thou shalt be inhabited: and to the cities of Juda: You shall be built, and I will raise up the wastes thereof.

Isaiah 42:18
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