Isaiah 42:16

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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.

“I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.”

— WEB

“And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.”

— KJV

“And I will bring the blind by a way that they know not; in paths that they know not will I lead them; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These things will I do, and I will not forsake them.”

— ASV

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Isaiah 40:4 "Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low. The uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain."
Luke 1:78-79 "because of the tender mercy of our God, whereby the dawn from on high will visit us,"
Ephesians 5:8 "For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,"
Isaiah 32:3 "The eyes of those who see will not be dim, and the ears of those who hear will listen."

Commentary

blind--God's people, Israel, in captivity, needing a guide. In the ulterior sense the New Testament Church, which was about to be led and enlightened by the Son of God as its leader and shepherd in the wilderness of the Roman empire, until it should reach a city of habitation. "A way . . . they knew not," refers to the various means ployed by Providence for the establishment of the Church in the world, such as would never have occurred to the mind of mere man. "Blind," they are called, as not having heretofore seen God's ways in ordering His Church. make darkness light, &c.--implies that the glorious issue would only be known by the event itself [VITRINGA]. The same holds good of the individual believer (Isa 30:21; Psa 107:7; compare Hos 2:6, Hos 2:14; Eph 5:8; Heb 13:5).

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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