¹⁶ And I will take the blind by a way of which they had no knowledge, guiding them by roads strange to them: I will make the dark places light before them, and the rough places level. These things will I do and will not give them up.

⁸ For you at one time were dark, but now are light in the Lord: let your behaviour be that of children of light

²¹ And at your back, when you are turning to the right hand or to the left, a voice will be sounding in your ears, saying, This is the way in which you are to go.

⁵ Every valley will be lifted up, and all the mountains and hills made low, and the twisted will be made straight, and the rough ways smooth;

⁴ Let every valley be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low, and let the rough places become level, and the hilltops become a valley,

³ And the eyes of those who see will not be shut, and those who have hearing will give ear to the word.

¹⁸ And in that day those whose ears are stopped will be hearing the words of the book; and the eyes of the blind will see through the mist and the dark.

¹⁴ The Lord will not give up his people, or take away his support from his heritage;

⁸ And a highway will be there; its name will be, The Holy Way; the unclean and the sinner may not go over it, and those who go on it will not be turned out of the way by the foolish.

¹⁹ The sun will not be your light by day, and the moon will no longer be bright for you by night: but the Lord will be to you an eternal light, and your God your glory.

²⁰ Your sun will never again go down, or your moon keep back her light: for the Lord will be your eternal light, and the days of your sorrow will be ended.

⁸ See, I will take them from the north country, and get them from the inmost parts of the earth, and with them the blind and the feeble-footed, the woman with child and her who is in birth-pains together: a very great army, they will come back here.

⁹ They will come with weeping, and going before them I will be their guide: guiding them by streams of water in a straight way where there is no falling: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is the first of my sons.

⁷⁸ Because of the loving mercies of our God, by which the dawn from heaven has come to us,

⁷⁹ To give light to those in dark places, and in the shade of death, so that our feet may be guided into the way of peace.

⁵ Be free from the love of money and pleased with the things which you have; for he himself has said, I will be with you at all times.

³ Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who through his great mercy has given us a new birth and a living hope by the coming again of Jesus Christ from the dead,

⁴ And a heritage fair, holy and for ever new, waiting in heaven for you,

⁵ Who, by the power of God are kept, through faith, for that salvation, which will be seen at the last day.

¹³ But it is right for us to give praise to God at all times for you, brothers, loved by the Lord, because it was the purpose of God from the first that you might have salvation, being made holy by the Spirit and by faith in what is true:

¹⁴ And in this purpose he gave you a part through the good news of which we were the preachers, even that you might have part in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

²⁹ Because those of whom he had knowledge before they came into existence, were marked out by him to be made like his Son, so that he might be the first among a band of brothers:

³⁰ And those who were marked out by him were named; and those who were named were given righteousness; and to those to whom he gave righteousness, in the same way he gave glory.

³¹ What may we say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?

⁸ But God has made clear his love to us, in that, when we were still sinners, Christ gave his life for us.

⁹ Much more, if we now have righteousness by his blood, will salvation from the wrath of God come to us through him.

¹⁰ For if, when we were haters of God, the death of his Son made us at peace with him, much more, now that we are his friends, will we have salvation through his life;

¹⁵ That which is bent may not be made straight, and that which is not there may not be numbered.

¹³ Give thought to the work of God. Who will make straight what he has made bent?

²⁴ Those whose hearts were turned away from him will get knowledge, and those who made an outcry against him will give attention to his teaching.

⁵ Then the eyes of the blind will see, and the ears which are stopped will be open.

³ He goes after them safely, not touching the road with his feet.

² I will go before you, and make the rough places level: the doors of brass will be broken, and the iron rods cut in two:

¹⁷ The Lord who takes up your cause, the Holy One of Israel, says, I am the Lord your God, who is teaching you for your profit, guiding you by the way in which you are to go.

¹³ And all your builders will be made wise by the Lord; and great will be the peace of your children.

¹ Up! let your face be bright, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord is shining on you.

² For truly, the earth will be dark, and the peoples veiled in blackest night; but the Lord will be shining on you, and his glory will be seen among you.

³⁹ And I will give them one heart and one way, so that they may go on in the worship of me for ever, for their good and the good of their children after them:

⁴⁰ And I will make an eternal agreement with them, that I will never give them up, but ever do them good; and I will put the fear of me in their hearts, so that they will not go away from me.

⁴¹ And truly, I will take pleasure in doing them good, and all my heart and soul will be given to planting them in this land in good faith.

²³ They will give you comfort when you see their ways and their doings: and you will be certain that not for nothing have I done all the things I have done in it, says the Lord.

⁶ For this cause I will put thorns in her road, building up a wall round her so that she may not go on her way.

¹⁴ For this cause I will make her come into the waste land and will say words of comfort to her.

⁴ But let there be a space between you and it of about two thousand cubits: come no nearer to it, so that you may see the way you have to go, for you have not been over this way before.