Thus says the Lord,
The Holy One of Israel, and his Maker.
'Ask Me of things to come concerning My Sons;
And concerning the work of My hands, you command Me.
I have made the earth, and created man on it.
I-My hands-stretched out the heavens,
And all their host I have commanded.
I have raised him up in righteousness,
And I will direct all his ways;
He shall build My city
And let My exiles go free,
Not for price nor reward,'
Says the Lord of hosts.
I have held My peace a long time,
I have been still and restrained Myself,
Now I will cry like a woman in labor,
I will pant and gasp at once.
I will lay waste the mountains and the hills,
And dry up all their vegetation;
I will make the rivers coastlands,
And I will dry up the pools.
I will bring the blind by a way they did not know;
I will lead them in paths they have not known.
I will make darkness light before them,
And crooked places straight.
These things I will do for them.
And not forsake them.
They shall be turned back,
They shall be greatly ashamed,
Who trust in carved images,
Who say to the molded images,
'You are our gods.'
"Hear you deaf;
and look you blind, that you may see
Who is blind but my servant,
Or deaf as my messenger whom I send?
Who is blind as he who is perfect,
And blind as the Lord's servant?
Seeing many things, but you do not observe;
Opening the ears, but he does not hear."
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