Isaiah 42:14-17

International Standard Version

¹⁴ “I have certainly^[a] stayed silent for a long time;
    I’ve kept still and held myself back.
Now, like a woman giving birth, I’ll cry out.
    All of a sudden I’ll gasp and pant.
¹⁵ I’ll devastate the mountains and hills,
    and dry up all their vegetation;
I’ll turn rivers into islands,
    and dry up the ponds.
¹⁶ I’ll help the blind walk,
    even^[b] on a road they do not know;
I’ll guide them
    in directions^[c] they do not know.
I’ll turn the dark places^[d] into light in front of them,
    and the rough places into level ground.
These are the things I will do,
    and I won’t abandon them.
¹⁷ Those who trust in carved idols
    will turn back and^[e] be completely disappointed,^[f]
along with those^[g] who say to metal images,
    ‘You are our gods.’”