13. The Lord shall go forth like a mighty man;He shall stir up zeal like a man of war.He shall cry out, yes, raise a war cry;He shall prevail against His enemies.
14. I have for a long time held My peace;I have been still and refrained Myself.Now I will cry like a travailing woman;I will destroy and devour at once.
15. I will lay waste mountains and hillsand dry up all their vegetation,and I will make the rivers islands,and I will dry up the pools.
16. I will bring the blind by a way that they did not know;I will lead them in paths that they have not known.I will make darkness light before themand crooked things straight.These things I will do for themand not forsake them.
17. They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed,who trust in graven images,who say to the molded images, “You are our gods.”
18. Hear, you deaf;look, you blind, that you may see.
19. Who is blind, but My servant?Or deaf, as My messenger whom I sent?Who is blind as he who is at peace with Me,and blind as the servant of the Lord?
20. You have seen many things, but you do not observe them;your ears are open, but no one hears.
21. The Lord is well pleasedfor His righteousness’ saketo magnify the law and make it honorable.
22. But this is a people robbed and despoiled;they are all snared in holes,and they are hidden in prison houses;they are for a prey,and no one delivers,for a spoil,and no one says, “Restore them.”
23. Who among you will give ear to this?Who will listen and hear for the time to come?
24. Who gave up Jacob as spoil,and Israel to the robbers?Did not the Lord,against whom we have sinned?For they would not walk in His ways,nor were they obedient to His law.
25. Therefore, He has poured on him the fury of His angerand the strength of battle;and it has set him on fire all around, yet he did not recognize it;and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.