Isaiah 42:16

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

Cross References

Psalm 94:14

For the Lord will not forsake his people; he will not abandon his heritage;

Ecclesiastes 1:15

What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted.

Ecclesiastes 7:13

Consider the work of God; who can make straight what he has made crooked?

Isaiah 26:7

The way of the righteous is level; straight is the path of the righteous that you clear.

Isaiah 29:18

On that day the deaf shall hear the words of a scroll, and freed from gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind shall see.

Isaiah 29:24

And those who err in spirit will come to understanding, and those who grumble will accept instruction.”

Isaiah 30:18

Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you; therefore he will rise up to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.

Isaiah 30:21

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

Isaiah 32:3

Then the eyes of those who have sight will not be closed, and the ears of those who have hearing will listen.

Isaiah 35:5

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

Isaiah 35:8

A highway shall be there, and it shall be called the Holy Way; the unclean shall not travel on it, but it shall be for God’s people; no traveler, not even fools, shall go astray.

Isaiah 40:4

Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain.

Isaiah 41:17

When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue is parched with thirst, I the Lord will answer them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.

Isaiah 41:3

He pursues them and passes on safely, scarcely touching the path with his feet.

Isaiah 45:2

I will go before you and level the mountains; I will break in pieces the doors of bronze and cut through the bars of iron;

Isaiah 45:7

I form light and create 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, who teaches you how to succeed, who leads you in the way you should go.

Isaiah 52:12

For you shall not go out in haste, and you shall not go in flight, for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

Isaiah 54:13

All your children shall be taught by the Lord, and great shall be the prosperity of your children.

Isaiah 58:10

if you offer your food to the hungry and satisfy the needs of the afflicted, then your light shall rise in the darkness and your gloom be like the noonday.

Isaiah 62:12

They shall be called, “The Holy People, The Redeemed of the Lord,” and you shall be called, “Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken.”

Ezekiel 14:23

They shall console you when you see their ways and their deeds, and you shall know that it was not without cause that I did all that I have done in it, says the Lord God.

Hosea 2:14

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

Hosea 2:6

Therefore I will hedge up her way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her so that she cannot find her paths.

Amos 5:8

The one who made the Pleiades and Orion and turns deep darkness into the morning and darkens the day into night, who calls for the water of the sea and pours it 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 made low, and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways made smooth,

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

Ephesians 5:8

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

Hebrews 13:5

Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be content with what you have, for he himself has said, “I will never leave you or forsake you.”

Joshua 3:4

so that you may know the way you should go, for you have not passed this way before. Yet there shall be a space between you and it, a distance of about two thousand cubits; do not come any nearer to it.”

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, in order that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.