16. I will lead the blind on a way they do not know;by paths they do not know I will guide them.I will turn darkness into light before them,and make crooked ways straight.These are my promises:I made them, I will not forsake them.
17. They shall be turned back in utter shamewho trust in idols;Who say to molten images,“You are our gods.”
18. You deaf ones, listen,you blind ones, look and see!
19. Who is blind but my servant,or deaf like the messenger I send?Who is blind like the one I restore,blind like the servant of the Lord?
20. You see many things but do not observe;ears open, but do not hear.
21. It was the Lord’s will for the sake of his justiceto make his teaching great and glorious.
22. This is a people plundered and despoiled,all of them trapped in holes,hidden away in prisons.They are taken as plunder, with no one to rescue them,as spoil, with no one to say, “Give back!”
23. Who among you will give ear to this,listen and pay attention from now on?
24. Who was it that gave Jacob to be despoiled,Israel to the plunderers?Was it not the Lord, against whom we have sinned?In his ways they refused to walk,his teaching they would not heed.
25. So he poured out wrath upon them,his anger, and the fury of battle;It blazed all around them, yet they did not realize,it burned them, but they did not take it to heart.