Isaiah 14:2

14:2 Nations will take them and bring them back to their own place. Then the family of Jacob will make foreigners their servants as they settle in the Lord’s land. ¹  They will make their captors captives and rule over the ones who oppressed them.

Isaiah 42:16

42:16 I will lead the blind along an unfamiliar way; ² 

I will guide them down paths they have never traveled. ³ 

I will turn the darkness in front of them into light,

and level out the rough ground. ⁴ 

This is what I will do for them.

I will not abandon them.

¹ tn Heb “and the house of Jacob will take possession of them [i.e., the nations], on the land of the Lord, as male servants and female servants.”

² tn Heb “a way they do not know” (so NASB); NRSV “a road they do not know.”

³ tn Heb “in paths they do not know I will make them walk.”

⁴ tn Heb “and the rough ground into a level place.”