Isaiah 42:10-17
Sing to the Lord a new song,
his praise from the
end of the earth!
Let the sea roar and
all that fills it,
the coastlands and
their inhabitants.
Let the desert and
its towns lift up their voice,
the villages that
Kedar inhabits;
let the inhabitants
of Sela sing for joy,
let them shout from
the tops of the mountains.
Let them give glory
to the Lord,
and declare his
praise in the coastlands.
The Lord goes forth
like a soldier,
like a warrior he
stirs up his fury;
he cries out, he
shouts aloud,
he shows himself
mighty against his foes.
For a long time I
have held my peace,
I have kept still and
restrained myself;
now I will cry out
like a woman in labor,
I will gasp and pant.
I will lay waste
mountains and hills,
and dry up all their
herbage;
I will turn the
rivers into islands,
and dry up the pools.
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.
They shall be turned
back and utterly put to shame--
those who trust in
carved images,
who say to cast images,
"You are our
gods." (NRSV)
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