14 “I have held My peace a long time, I have been still and restrained Myself. Now like a woman in labor I groan, gasping and panting at once.
15 I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their vegetation. I will turn the rivers into islands, and dry up the pools.
16 I will bring the blind by a way they do not know. in paths they have not known, I will guide them. I will turn darkness before them to light and the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do, and I will not forsake them.
17 They will be turned back, utterly put to shame— those trusting in idols, who say to molten images, ‘You are our gods.’
18 Hear, you deaf! Look, you blind, so you may see.
19 Who is blind, but My Servant? Or deaf as My Messenger that I send? Who is so blind as the one in covenant with Me, blind as Adonai’s Servant?
20 You have seen many things, but you do not pay attention. Though ears are open, no one hears.”