The Deaf Hear and the Humble Rejoice after Oppression Ends

Lebanon becomes a field, and ears and eyes open in the same reversal

Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest? And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness. The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

Forest and field trade places; sealed-book deafness and darkness give way. Sensory language here is the end of stupor and exclusion, not a claim that bodily deafness or blindness is moral failure, and not a stigma on disabled people.

Tyrants and scorners end, and Jacob's children come to understanding without shame

For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off: that make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought. Therefore thus saith the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.

But when he seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel. They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine. Word-traps in the gate and cheap sale of the just are the scorner's work. Correction of error and an unashamed Jacob close the hope. The poor's joy is not a slogan while snares remain in your gate.