Isaiah 42:16

God promises to lead the blind along unfamiliar paths, turning darkness to light and rough places smooth, and pledges not to forsake them. It assures the helpless that God Himself guides and never abandons His own.

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• Isa 30:21And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
• Luke 3:5Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;
• Isa 35:8And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.
• Isa 60:19–20The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
• Luke 1:78–79Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,
• Isa 40:4Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:
• Eph 5:8For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
• Isa 32:3And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.
• Jer 32:39–41And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:
• Ps 94:14For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
• Heb 13:5Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
• Isa 48:17Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.
• Isa 29:18And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.
• Isa 45:2I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
• Jer 31:8–9Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall return thither.
• Isa 35:5Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
• Rom 5:8–10But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
• 1 Pet 1:3–5Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
• Isa 29:24They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.
• Hos 2:14Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.
• Isa 60:1–2Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.
• Hos 2:6Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
• Josh 3:4Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: come not near unto it, that ye may know the way by which ye must go: for ye have not passed this way heretofore.
• Rom 8:29–31For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
• 2 Th 2:13–14But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
• Eccl 7:13Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
• Eccl 1:15That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
• Isa 54:13And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children.
• Ezek 14:23And they shall comfort you, when ye see their ways and their doings: and ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord GOD.
• Isa 41:3He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that he had not gone with his feet.

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