¹⁷ Life will be brighter than noonday,^(A)
    and darkness will become like morning.^(B)

⁶ He will make your righteous reward^(A) shine like the dawn,^(B)
    your vindication like the noonday sun.

¹⁶ I will lead^(A) the blind^(B) by ways they have not known,
    along unfamiliar paths I will guide them;
I will turn the darkness into light^(C) before them
    and make the rough places smooth.^(D)
These are the things I will do;
    I will not forsake^(E) them.

⁸ Then your light will break forth like the dawn,^(A)
    and your healing^(B) will quickly appear;
then your righteousness^[a](C) will go before you,
    and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard.^(D)