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Isaiah 42:9-16

⁹ The things announced in the past—look—they’ve already happened, but I’m declaring new things. Before they even appear, I tell you about them. ¹⁰ Sing to the LORD a new song! Sing his praise from the ends of the earth! You who sail the sea and all that fills it, the coastlands and their residents. ¹¹ Let the desert and its towns shout aloud, the villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the cliff dwellers sing; from the top of the mountains let them shout. ¹² Let them give the LORD glory and declare God’s praise in the coastlands. ¹³ The LORD will go out like a soldier; like a warrior God will stir up rage. God will shout, will roar; over enemies he will prevail. ¹⁴ I’ve kept still for a very long time. I’ve been silent and restrained myself. Like a woman in labor I will moan; I will pant, I will gasp. ¹⁵ I will wither mountains and valleys, and I will dry up all their vegetation. I will turn rivers into deserts, and I will dry up pools. ¹⁶ I will make the blind walk a road they don’t know, and I will guide them in paths they don’t know. But I will make darkness before them into light and rough places into level ground. These things I will do; I won’t abandon them.