Isaiah 42:14-17
Lexham English Bible
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.”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 42:16 Literally “before their face”
- Isaiah 42:17 Literally “ashamed with shame”
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.’”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 42:14 So 1QIsaa; the Heb. lacks certainly
- Isaiah 42:16 Or and; so 1QIsaa; the Heb. lacks even
- Isaiah 42:16 Lit. paths
- Isaiah 42:16 So 1QIsaa (misspelling places); MT LXX read darkness
- Isaiah 42:17 So 1QIsaa; the Heb. lacks and
- Isaiah 42:17 So 1QIsaa MT LXX; MTms lacks disappointed
- Isaiah 42:17 1QIsaa MT LXX lack along with those
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