Charles Ellicott Commentary Isaiah 43:8

"Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears." — Isaiah 43:8 (ASV)

Bring forth the blind people ... —The command comes abruptly, as from a Divine voice, and is, as it were, a reversed echo of Isaiah 42:18-20. There Israel saw but did not observe, had eyes and yet was blind. Here the blind and deaf— i.e., the heathen, or the Israel that had fallen into heathenism—are spoken of as having capacities for sight and hearing which will one day be developed.