Isaiah 42:16

Modern English Version

I will bring the blind by a way that they did not know; I will lead them in paths that they have not known. I will make darkness light before them and crooked things straight. These things I will do for them and not forsake them.

Cross References

Psalm 94:14

For the Lord will not abandon His people, nor will He abandon His heritage.

Ecclesiastes 1:15

What is bent cannot be straightened, and what is missing cannot be counted.

Ecclesiastes 7:13

Consider the work of God: Who can make straight what He made crooked?

Isaiah 26:7

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

Isaiah 29:18

And on that day the deaf shall hear the words of a book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and darkness.

Isaiah 29:24

Those also who err in spirit shall know the truth, and those who murmured shall accept instruction.

Isaiah 30:18

Therefore, the Lord longs to be gracious to you, and therefore, He waits on high to have mercy on you; for the Lord is a God of justice; how blessed are all who long for Him.

Isaiah 30:21

Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” whenever you turn to the right hand and when you turn to the left.

Isaiah 32:3

The eyes of those who see shall not be blinded, and the ears of those who hear shall listen.

Isaiah 35:5

Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.

Isaiah 35:8

A highway shall be there, a roadway, and it shall be called the Highway of Holiness. The unclean shall not pass on it, but it shall be for the wayfaring men, and fools shall not wander on it.

Isaiah 40:4

Let every valley be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low, and let the rough ground become a plain, and the rough places a plain;

Isaiah 41:17

When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongues fail for thirst, I, the Lord, will hear them, I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

Isaiah 41:3

He pursued them, and passed safely, by paths his feet have not traveled.

Isaiah 45:2

I will go before you and make the crooked places straight; I will break in pieces the gates of bronze and shatter the bars of iron.

Isaiah 45:7

I form the light and create darkness; I make peace and create calamity; I, the Lord, do all these things.

Isaiah 48:17

Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should go.

Isaiah 52:12

For you shall not go out with haste nor go by flight. For the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

Isaiah 54:13

All your sons shall be taught of the Lord, and great shall be the peace of your sons.

Isaiah 58:10

and if you give yourself to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light shall rise in obscurity, and your darkness shall become as the noonday.

Isaiah 62:12

They shall call them The Holy People, the Redeemed of the Lord; and you shall be called Sought Out, a City Not Forsaken.

Ezekiel 14:23

Then they shall comfort you when you see their ways and their deeds. And you shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, says the Lord God.

Hosea 2:14

Therefore, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.

Hosea 2:6

Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and make a wall, so that she will not find her paths.

Amos 5:8

The One who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns the deep darkness into dawn and darkens the day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them out on the surface of the earth— the Lord is His name,

Luke 3:5

Every valley shall be filled and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight and the rough ways shall be made smooth;

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.’

Ephesians 5:8

For you were formerly darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light —

Hebrews 13:5

Let your lives be without love of money, and be content with the things you have. For He has said: “I will never leave you, nor forsake you.”

Joshua 3:4

There must be a distance of two thousand cubits between you and it. Do not draw closer to it, in order that you may know the way you should go, for you have not passed this way before.”

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may declare the goodness of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.