Isaiah 42:10-18 (NRSV)
Sing
to the LORD a new song,
his praise from the end of the earth!
Let
the sea roar and all that fills it,
the coastlands and their inhabitants.
Let the desert and its towns lift up their voice,
the villages that Kedar
inhabits;
let the inhabitants of Sela sing for joy,
let them shout
from the tops of the mountains.
Let them give glory to the LORD,
and declare his praise in the coastlands.
The LORD goes forth like a
soldier,
like a warrior he stirs up his fury;
he cries out, he shouts
aloud,
he shows himself mighty against his foes.
For a long time
I have held my peace,
I have kept still and restrained myself;
now
I will cry out like a woman in labor,
I will gasp and pant.
I will
lay waste mountains and hills,
and dry up all their herbage;
I will
turn the rivers into islands,
and dry up the pools.
I will lead the
blind
by a road they do not know,
by paths they have not known
I will guide them.
I will turn the darkness before them into light,
the rough places into level ground.
These are the things I will do,
and I will not forsake them.
They shall be turned back and utterly put
to shame —
those who trust in carved images,
who say to cast images,
"You are our gods."
Listen, you that are deaf;
and you
that are blind, look up and see!
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