Isaiah 42:16

New American Bible - revised edition

I will lead the blind on a way they do not know; by paths they do not know I will guide them. I will turn darkness into light before them, and make crooked ways straight. These are my promises: I made them, I will not forsake them.

Cross References

Psalm 94:14

For the Lord will not forsake his people, nor abandon his inheritance.

Ecclesiastes 1:15

What is crooked cannot be made straight, and you cannot count what is not there.

Ecclesiastes 7:13

Consider the work of God. Who can make straight what God has made crooked?

Isaiah 26:7

The way of the just is smooth; the path of the just you make level.

Isaiah 29:18

On that day the deaf shall hear the words of a scroll; And out of gloom and darkness, the eyes of the blind shall see.

Isaiah 29:24

Those who err in spirit shall acquire understanding, those who find fault shall receive instruction.

Isaiah 30:18

Truly, the Lord is waiting to be gracious to you, truly, he shall rise to show you mercy; For the Lord is a God of justice: happy are all who wait for him!

Isaiah 30:21

And your ears shall hear a word behind you: “This is the way; walk in it,” when you would turn to the right or the left.

Isaiah 32:3

The eyes of those who see will not be closed; the ears of those who hear will be attentive.

Isaiah 35:5

Then the eyes of the blind shall see, and the ears of the deaf be opened;

Isaiah 35:8

A highway will be there, called the holy way; No one unclean may pass over it, but it will be for his people; no traveler, not even fools, shall go astray on it.

Isaiah 40:4

Every valley shall be lifted up, every mountain and hill made low; The rugged land shall be a plain, the rough country, a broad valley.

Isaiah 41:17

The afflicted and the needy seek water in vain, their tongues are parched with thirst. I, the Lord, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

Isaiah 41:3

He pursues them, passing on without loss, by a path his feet scarcely touch.

Isaiah 45:2

I will go before you and level the mountains; Bronze doors I will shatter, iron bars I will snap.

Isaiah 45:7

I form the light, and create the darkness, I make weal and create woe; 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, teaching you how to prevail, leading you on the way you should go.

Isaiah 52:12

But not in hurried flight will you go out, nor leave in headlong haste, For the Lord goes before you, and your rear guard is the God of Israel.

Isaiah 54:13

All your children shall be taught by the Lord; great shall be the peace of your children.

Isaiah 58:10

If you lavish your food on the hungry and satisfy the afflicted; Then your light shall rise in the darkness, and your gloom shall become like midday;

Isaiah 62:12

They shall be called “The Holy People,” “The Redeemed of the Lord.” And you shall be called “Cared For,” “A City Not Forsaken.”

Ezekiel 14:23

They shall console you when you see their ways and their deeds, and you shall know that not without reason did I do to it everything I did—oracle of the Lord God.

Hosea 2:14

I will lay waste her vines and fig trees, of which she said, “These are the fees my lovers have given me”; I will turn them into rank growth and wild animals shall devour them.

Hosea 2:6

I will have no pity on her children, for they are children of prostitution.

Amos 5:8

The one who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn, and darkens day into night; Who summons the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth;

Luke 3:5

Every valley shall be filled and every mountain and hill shall be made low. The winding roads shall be made straight, and the rough ways made smooth,

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may obtain forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been consecrated by faith in me.’

Ephesians 5:8

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light,

Hebrews 13:5

Let your life be free from love of money but be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never forsake you or abandon you.”

Joshua 3:4

that you may know the way to take, for you have not gone over this road before. But let there be a space of two thousand cubits between you and the ark: do not come nearer to it.”

1 Peter 2:9

But you are “a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may announce the praises” of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.