The Complete Jewish Bible CJB
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16 The blind I will lead on a road they don't know, on roads they don't know I will lead them; I will turn darkness to light before them, and straighten their twisted paths. These are things I will do without fail.
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I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them.
17 Those who trust in idols, who say to statues, 'You are our gods,' will be repulsed in utter shame.
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But those who trust in idols, who say to images, ‘You are our gods,’ will be turned back in utter shame.
18 Listen, you deaf! Look, you blind! - so that you will see!
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“Hear, you deaf; look, you blind, and see!
19 Who is as blind as my servant, or as deaf as the messenger I send? Who is as blind as the one I rewarded, as blind as the servant of ADONAI?"
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Who is blind but my servant, and deaf like the messenger I send? Who is blind like the one in covenant with me, blind like the servant of the LORD?
20 You see much but don't pay attention; you open your ears, but you don't listen.
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You have seen many things, but you pay no attention; your ears are open, but you do not listen.”
21 ADONAI was pleased, for his righteousness' sake, to make the Torah great and glorious.
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It pleased the LORDfor the sake of his righteousness to make his law great and glorious.
22 But this is a people pillaged and plundered, all trapped in holes and sequestered in prisons. They are there to be plundered, with no one to rescue them; there to be pillaged, and no one says, "Return them!"
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But this is a people plundered and looted, all of them trapped in pits or hidden away in prisons. They have become plunder, with no one to rescue them; they have been made loot, with no one to say, “Send them back.”
23 Which of you will listen to this? Who will hear and give heed in the times to come?
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Which of you will listen to this or pay close attention in time to come?
24 Who gave Ya'akov to be pillaged, Isra'el to the plunderers? Didn't ADONAI, against whom we have sinned, in whose ways they refused to walk, he whose Torah they did not obey?
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Who handed Jacob over to become loot, and Israel to the plunderers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned? For they would not follow his ways; they did not obey his law.
25 This is why he poured on him his blazing anger as well as the fury of battle - it wrapped him in flames, yet he learned nothing; it burned him, yet he did not take it to heart.
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So he poured out on them his burning anger, the violence of war. It enveloped them in flames, yet they did not understand; it consumed them, but they did not take it to heart.
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