14 For 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.”

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Notas al pie

  1. Isaiah 42:15 Or into coastlands

14 I have been silent for a long time;
    I have kept silent;
I have restrained myself like one giving birth;
    I will moan, pant, and gasp together.
15 I will cause mountains and hills to dry up,
    and I will cause all their herbage to wither;
and I will make rivers like islands,
    and I will cause pools to dry up.
16 And I will lead the blind by a road they do not know;
    I will cause them to tread on paths they have not known.
I will make darkness in their presence[a] into light
    and rough places into level ground.
These are the things I will do,
    and I will not forsake them.
17 They shall turn back;
    they shall be greatly ashamed,[b]
those who trust in an image,
    who say to a cast image, “You are our gods.”

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Notas al pie

  1. Isaiah 42:16 Literally “before their face”
  2. Isaiah 42:17 Literally “ashamed with shame”