Isaiah 42:14-21

Evangelical Heritage Version

¹⁴ I have been silent for a long time.
I have kept still. I have restrained myself.
But now, like a woman giving birth, I will scream.
I will gasp and pant.
¹⁵ I will dry up mountains and hills.
I will make all their grass wither.
I will turn rivers into islands.
I will dry up pools.
¹⁶ I will lead the blind on a way they do not know.
Along paths they do not know I will direct them.
Ahead of them I will turn darkness into light
and rough places into level ground.
These are the things I will accomplish for them.
I will not abandon them.

¹⁸ You deaf ones, listen!
You blind ones, watch carefully so that you can see!
¹⁹ Who is as blind as my servant?
Who is as deaf as my messenger whom I sent?
Who is as blind as my associate,^[a]
as blind as the servant of the Lord?
²⁰ You, Israel, see many things, but you do not observe.
Israel opens his ears, but he does not hear.
²¹ Because of his own righteousness,
the Lord was pleased to make his law^[b] great and glorious.