13 aThe Lord will go forth like a warrior,

He will arouse His bzeal like a man of war.

He will utter a shout, yes, He will raise a war cry.

He will cprevail against His enemies.

The Blindness of the People

14 “aI have kept silent for a long time,

I have kept still and restrained Myself.

Now like a woman in labor I will groan,

I will both gasp and pant.

15 “I will alay waste the mountains and hills

And wither all their vegetation;

I will bmake the rivers into coastlands

And dry up the ponds.

16 “I will alead the blind by a way they do not know,

In paths they do not know I will guide them.

I will bmake darkness into light before them

And crugged places into plains.

These are the things I will do,

And I will dnot leave them undone.”

17 They will be turned back and be autterly put to shame,

Who trust in 1idols,

Who say to molten images,

“You are our gods.”

18 aHear, you deaf!

And look, you blind, that you may see.

19 Who is blind but My aservant,

Or so deaf as My bmessenger whom I send?

Who is so blind as he that is 1cat peace with Me,

Or so blind as the servant of the Lord?

20 aYou have seen many things, but you do not observe them;

Your ears are open, but none hears.

21 The Lord was pleased for His righteousness’ sake

To make the law agreat and glorious.

22 But this is a people plundered and despoiled;

All of them are atrapped in 1caves,

Or are bhidden away in prisons;

They have become a prey with none to deliver them,

And a spoil, with none to say, “Give them back!”

23 Who among you will give ear to this?

Who will give heed and listen hereafter?

24 Who gave Jacob up for spoil, and Israel to plunderers?

Was it not the Lord, against whom we have sinned,

And in whose ways they awere not willing to walk,

And whose law they did not bobey?

25 So He poured out on him the heat of His anger

And the afierceness of battle;

And it set him aflame all around,

Yet he did not recognize it;

And it burned him, but he 1bpaid no attention.