Many peoples will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the temple of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths.” The law will go out from Zion, the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

Youths oppress my people, women rule over them. My people, your guides lead you astray; they turn you from the path.

The path of the righteous is level; you, the Upright One, make the way of the righteous smooth.

Leave this way, get off this path, and stop confronting us with the Holy One of Israel!”

Whom did the Lord consult to enlighten him, and who taught him the right way? Who was it that taught him knowledge, or showed him the path of understanding?

He pursues them and moves on unscathed, by a path his feet have not traveled before.

I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them.

This is what the Lord says— he who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters,

The way of peace they do not know; there is no justice in their paths. They have turned them into crooked roads; no one who walks along them will know peace.