42:16 I will lead the blind along an unfamiliar way; 4
I will guide them down paths they have never traveled. 5
I will turn the darkness in front of them into light,
and level out the rough ground. 6
This is what I will do for them.
I will not abandon them.
1 tn Heb “To your master and to you did my master send me to speak these words?” The rhetorical question expects a negative answer.
2 tn Heb “[Is it] not [also] to the men…?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Yes, it is.”
3 tn Heb “by which the servants of the king of Assyria have insulted me.”
5 tn Heb “a way they do not know” (so NASB); NRSV “a road they do not know.”
6 tn Heb “in paths they do not know I will make them walk.”
7 tn Heb “and the rough ground into a level place.”