Isaiah 42:16-18

New International Reader's Version

¹⁶ Israel is blind.
    So I will lead them along paths
    they had not known before.
I will guide them on roads they are not familiar with.
    I will turn the darkness into light as they travel.
    I will make the rough places smooth.
Those are the things I will do.
    I will not desert my people.
¹⁷ Some people trust in statues of gods.
    They say to them, ‘You are our gods.’
But they will be dishonored.
    They will be put to shame.

¹⁸ “Israel, listen to me! You can hear,
    but you do not understand.
Look to me! You can see,
    but you do not know what you are seeing.