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.

Cross-references · 30

• Isa 30:21and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”
• Luke 3:5Every valley will be filled. Every mountain and hill will be brought low. The crooked will become straight, and the rough ways smooth.
• Isa 35:8A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called The Holy Way. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools will not go there.
• Isa 60:19–20The sun will be no more your light by day; nor will the brightness of the moon give light to you, but Yahweh will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.
• Luke 1:78–79because of the tender mercy of our God, whereby the dawn from on high will visit us,
• Isa 40:4Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low. The uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain.
• Eph 5:8For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
• Isa 32:3The eyes of those who see will not be dim, and the ears of those who hear will listen.
• Jer 32:39–41and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good, and of their children after them:
• Ps 94:14For Yahweh won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
• Heb 13:5Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”
• Isa 48:17Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.
• Isa 29:18In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.
• Isa 45:2“I will go before you, and make the rough places smooth. I will break the doors of brass in pieces, and cut apart the bars of iron.
• Jer 31:8–9Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, along with the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her who travails with child together. They will return as a great company.
• Isa 35:5Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.
• Rom 5:8–10But God commends his own 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, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
• Isa 29:24They also who err in spirit will come to understanding, and those who grumble will receive instruction.”
• Hos 2:14“Therefore behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.
• Isa 60:1–2“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.
• Hos 2:6Therefore behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can’t find her way.
• Josh 3:4Yet there shall be a space between you and it of about two thousand cubits by measure — don’t come closer to it — that you may know the way by which you must go; for you have not passed this way before.”
• Rom 8:29–31For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
• 2 Th 2:13–14But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth;
• Eccl 7:13Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked?
• Eccl 1:15That which is crooked can’t be made straight; and that which is lacking can’t be counted.
• Isa 54:13All your children will be taught by Yahweh; and your children’s peace will be great.
• Ezek 14:23They will comfort you, when you see their way and their doings; and you will know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it,” says the Lord Yahweh.
• Isa 41:3He pursues them, and passes by safely, Even by a way that he had not gone with his feet.

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