14 I have been silent from of old: I have been still, and refrained myself; (now) will I cry like a travailing woman; I will gasp and pant together.

15 I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbage; and I will turn rivers to islands, and I will dry up pools.

16 And I will make the blind walk by a way that they knew not; I will make them tread in paths they knew not; I will turn darkness to light before them, and uneven places into a plain. These are the things, I will do them, and will not abandon them.

17 They are turned back; they shall be ashamed, that trust in the graven images, that say to the molten image, Ye are our gods.

18 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.

19 Who is blind, but my servant, and deaf, but my messenger whom I (shall) send? who is blind as the surrendered one, and blind as the Lord's servant?

20 Thou hast seen many things, but thou observest Inot: opening the ears, and he heareth not.

11. ‘Sela’: or, ‘the rock.14. Tenses are doubtful as to rendering. ‘gasp and pant’: or, and swallow.

21 The Lord was pleased for his righteousness’ sake: he make the law great, and make it glorious.

22 And it is a people spoiled and robbed: snared in holes all of them, and hidden in houses of confinement; they are for a spoil, and there is none that delivereth; a prey, and none that saith, Restore.

23 Who among you will give ear to this? will hearken, and hear for the time to come?

24 Who gave up Jacob for a prey, and Israel to spoilers? was it not the Lord, he against whom we have sinned? And they would not walk in his ways, and heard not his law.

25 And be poured upon him fury, his anger, and the violence of war; and it set him on ﬁre round about, and he knew not; and kindled upon him, and he laid it not to heart.

XLIII. 1 And now thus saith the Lord, that created thee, O Jacob, and that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not; for I have redeemed thee, I have called (thee) by thy name, thou (art) mine.

2 When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the ﬁre, thou shalt not be scorched, and the ﬂame shall not kindle upon thee.

3 For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour; I have given Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in thy stead.

4 Since thou art (become) precious in mine eyes, hast been honoured, and I have loved thee; therefore I will give man in thy stead, and people for thy life.

5 Fear not; for I am with thee: I Will bring thy seed from the East, and gather thee from the West:

6 I will say to the North, Give up; and to the South, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the end of the earth:

4. ‘therefore,’ Heb. ‘and,’ marking principal clause: ‘thy ’ lit. ‘soul.’6. ‘Keep not back’: or, ‘restrain not,’

7 Everyone that is called by my name, and that I have created for my glory; that I have formed, yea, have made.

8 Bring forth a blind people, and they have eyes; and deaf ones, and they have ears.