Isaiah 42:14-21

English Standard Version

¹⁴For a long time I have held my peace;
    I have kept still and restrained myself;
now I will cry out ^(A)like a woman in labor;
    I will gasp and pant.
¹⁵^(B)I will lay waste mountains and hills,
    and dry up all their vegetation;
I will turn the rivers into islands,^[a]
    and dry up the pools.
¹⁶^(C)And I will lead the blind
    in a way that they do not know,
in paths that they have not known
    I will guide them.
I will turn the darkness before them into light,
    ^(D)the rough places into level ground.
These are the things I do,
    and I do not forsake them.
¹⁷^(E)They are turned back and utterly put to shame,
    who trust in carved idols,
who say to metal images,
    “You are our gods.”

Israel's Failure to Hear and See

¹⁸Hear, you deaf,
    and look, you blind, that you may see!
¹⁹Who is blind but my servant,
    or deaf as my messenger whom I send?
Who is blind as my dedicated one,^[b]
    or blind as the servant of the Lord?
²⁰^(F)He sees many things, but does not observe them;
    ^(G)his ears are open, but he does not hear.
²¹The Lord was pleased, for his righteousness' sake,
    to magnify his law and make it glorious.

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Footnotes

Isaiah 42:15 Or into coastlands
Isaiah 42:19 Or as the one at peace with me

Ephesians 5:8-14

English Standard Version

⁸for ^(A)at one time you were ^(B)darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. ^(C)Walk as children of light ⁹(for ^(D)the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true), ¹⁰and ^(E)try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord. ¹¹^(F)Take no part in the ^(G)unfruitful ^(H)works of darkness, but instead ^(I)expose them. ¹²For ^(J)it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret. ¹³But when ^(K)anything is exposed by the light, it becomes visible, ¹⁴for anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says,