Is 42:6-16

6I, the LORD, have called you for justice,

I have grasped you by the hand;

I formed you, and set you

as a covenant for the people,

a light for the nations,^b

7To open the eyes of the blind,

to bring out prisoners from confinement,

and from the dungeon, those who live in darkness.

8I am the LORD, LORD is my name;

my glory I give to no other,

nor my praise to idols.

9See, the earlier things have come to pass,

new ones I now declare;

Before they spring forth

I announce them to you.

10Sing to the LORD a new song,

his praise from the ends of the earth:

Let the sea and what fills it resound,

the coastlands, and those who dwell in them.

11Let the wilderness and its cities cry out,

the villages where Kedar^* dwells;

Let the inhabitants of Sela exult,

and shout from the top of the mountains.

12Let them give glory to the LORD,

and utter his praise in the coastlands.

13The LORD goes forth like a warrior,

like a man of war he stirs up his fury;

He shouts out his battle cry,

against his enemies he shows his might:^c

14For a long time I have kept silent,

I have said nothing, holding myself back;

Now I cry out like a woman in labor,

gasping and panting.

15^* I will lay waste mountains and hills,

all their undergrowth I will dry up;

I will turn the rivers into marshes,

and the marshes I will dry up.^d

16I 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.^e