Lexicon :: Strong's H5787 - ʿiûēr

The LORD said to him, “Who placed a mouth on humans? Who makes a person mute or deaf, seeing or blind? Is it not I, the LORD?

“Do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block in front of the blind, but you are to fear your God; I am the LORD.

“No man who has any defect is to come near: no man who is blind, lame, facially disfigured, or deformed;

“But if there is a defect in the animal, if it is lame or blind or has any serious defect, you may not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.

“‘The one who leads a blind person astray on the road is cursed.’

And all the people will say, ‘Amen! ’

“so that at noon you will grope as a blind person gropes in the dark. You will not be successful in anything you do. You will only be oppressed and robbed continually, and no one will help you.

The king and his men marched to Jerusalem against the Jebusites who inhabited the land. The Jebusites had said to David, “You will never get in here. Even the blind and lame can repel you” thinking, “David can’t get in here.”

He said that day, “Whoever attacks the Jebusites must go through the water shaft to reach the lame and the blind who are despised by David.”[fn] For this reason it is said, “The blind and the lame will never enter the house.”[fn]

I was eyes to the blind

and feet to the lame.

The LORD opens the eyes of the blind.

The LORD raises up those who are oppressed.[fn]

The LORD loves the righteous.

On that day the deaf will hear

the words of a document,

and out of a deep darkness

the eyes of the blind will see.

Then the eyes of the blind will be opened,

and the ears of the deaf unstopped.

“in order to open blind eyes,

to bring out prisoners from the dungeon,

and those sitting in darkness from the prison house.

“I will lead the blind by a way they did not know;

I will guide them on paths they have not known.

I will turn darkness to light in front of them

and rough places into level ground.

This is what I will do for them,

and I will not abandon them.

“Listen, you deaf!

Look, you blind, so that you may see.

Bring out a people who are blind, yet have eyes,

and are deaf, yet have ears.

Israel’s[fn] watchmen are blind, all of them,

they know nothing;

all of them are mute dogs,

they cannot bark;

they dream, lie down,

and love to sleep.

We grope along a wall like the blind;

we grope like those without eyes.

We stumble at noon as though it were twilight;

we are like the dead among those who are healthy.

Watch! I am going to bring them from the northern land.

I will gather them from remote regions of the earth —

the blind and the lame will be with them,

along with those who are pregnant and those about to give birth.

They will return here as a great assembly!

Blind, they stumbled in the streets,

defiled by this blood,

so that no one dared

to touch their garments.

I will bring distress on mankind,

and they will walk like the blind

because they have sinned against the LORD.

Their blood will be poured out like dust

and their flesh like dung.

“When you present a blind animal for sacrifice, is it not wrong? And when you present a lame or sick animal, is it not wrong? Bring it to your governor! Would he be pleased with you or show you favor? ” asks the LORD of Armies.