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Isaiah, Chapter 42, verses 14-25

¹⁴ “I have kept silent for a long time, I have kept still and restrained Myself. Now like a woman in labor I will groan, I will both gasp and pant.	14 Psa 50:21 Isa 57:11
¹⁵ “I will lay waste the mountains and hills And wither all their vegetation; I will make the rivers into coastlands And dry up the ponds.	15 Isa 2:12-16 Eze 38:19 Eze 38:20 Isa 44:27 Isa 50:2 Nah 1:4-6
¹⁶ “I will lead the blind by a way they do not know, In paths they do not know I will guide them. I will make darkness into light before them And rugged places into plains. These are the things I will do, And I will not leave them undone.”	16 Isa 29:18 Isa 30:21 Isa 32:3 Jer 31:8 Jer 31:9 Luk 1:78 Luk 1:79 Isa 29:18 Eph 5:8 Isa 40:4 Luk 3:5 Jos 1:5 Psa 94:14 Isa 41:17 Heb 13:5
¹⁷ They will be turned back and be utterly put to shame, Who trust in^f Or graven imagesidols, Who say to molten images, “You are our gods.”	17 Psa 97:7 Isa 1:29 Isa 44:9 Isa 44:11 Isa 45:16
¹⁸ Hear, you deaf! And look, you blind, that you may see.	18 Isa 29:18 Isa 35:5
¹⁹ Who is blind but My servant, Or so deaf as My messenger whom I send? Who is so blind as he that is^g Or the devoted oneat peace with Me, Or so blind as the servant of the LORD?	19 Isa 41:8 Isa 44:26 Isa 26:3 Isa 27:5
²⁰ You have seen many things, but you do not observe them; Your ears are open, but none hears.	20 Rom 2:21
²¹ The LORD was pleased for His righteousness’ sake To make the law great and glorious.	21 Isa 42:4 Isa 51:4
²² But this is a people plundered and despoiled; All of them are trapped in^h Or holescaves, Or are hidden away in prisons; They have become a prey with none to deliver them, And a spoil, with none to say, “Give them back!”	22 Isa 24:18 Isa 24:22
²³ Who among you will give ear to this? Who will give heed and listen hereafter?
²⁴ Who gave Jacob up for spoil, and Israel to plunderers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned, And in whose ways they were not willing to walk, And whose law they did not obey?	24 Isa 30:15 Isa 48:18 Isa 57:17
²⁵ So He poured out on him the heat of His anger And the fierceness of battle; And it set him aflame all around, Yet he did not recognize it; And it burned him, but heⁱ Lit did not lay it to heartpaid no attention.	25 Isa 5:25 Isa 9:19 Isa 29:13 Isa 47:7 Isa 57:1 Hos 7:9


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