042:015 I will destroy mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs. I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools. 042:016 I will bring the blind by a way that they don't know. I will lead them in paths that they don't know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them. 042:017 "Those who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images, 'You are our gods' will be turned back. They will be utterly disappointed. 042:018 "Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see. 042:019 Who is blind, but my servant? Or who is as deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is as blind as he who is at peace, and as blind as Yahweh's servant? 042:020 You see many things, but don't observe. His ears are open, but he doesn't listen. 042:021 It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify the law, and make it honorable. 042:022 But this is a robbed and plundered people. All of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prisons. They have become a prey, and no one delivers; and a spoil, and no one says, 'Restore them!' 042:023 Who is there among you who will give ear to this? Who will listen and hear for the time to come? 042:024 Who gave Jacob as plunder, and Israel to the robbers? Didn't Yahweh, he against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in his ways, and they disobeyed his law. 042:025 Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him, and the strength of battle; and it set him on fire all around, but he didn't know; and it burned him, but he didn't take it to heart." 043:001 But now thus says Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel: "Don't be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine. 043:002 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, and flame will not scorch you. 043:003 For I am Yahweh your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I have given Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place. 043:004 Since you have been precious and honored in my sight, and I have loved you; therefore I will give people in your place, and nations instead of your life. 043:005 Don't be afraid; for I am with you. I will bring your seed from the east, and gather you from the west. 043:006 I will tell the north, 'Give them up!' and tell the south, 'Don't hold them back! Bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth-- 043:007 everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.'"