Isaiah 42:14-16

Common English Bible

¹⁴I’ve kept still for a very long time.
    I’ve been silent and restrained myself.
Like a woman in labor I will moan;
    I will pant, I will gasp.
¹⁵I will wither mountains and valleys,
    and I will dry up all their vegetation.
I will turn rivers into deserts,^[a]
    and I will dry up pools.
¹⁶I will make the blind walk a road they don’t know,
    and I will guide them in paths they don’t know.
But I will make darkness before them into light
    and rough places into level ground.
These things I will do;
    I won’t abandon them.

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Footnotes

Isaiah 42:15 Or islands

Matthew 23:37-39

Common English Bible

Crying over Jerusalem

³⁷“Jerusalem, Jerusalem! You who kill the prophets and stone those who were sent to you. How often I wanted to gather your people together, just as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings. But you didn’t want that. ³⁸Look, your house is left to you deserted. ³⁹I tell you, you won’t see me until you say, Blessings on the one who comes in the Lord’s name.”^[a]

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