Yesaya 42:16

42:16 I will lead the blind along an unfamiliar way; ¹ 

I will guide them down paths they have never traveled. ² 

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

and level out the rough ground. ³ 

This is what I will do for them.

I will not abandon them.

Yesaya 49:6

49:6 he says, “Is it too insignificant a task for you to be my servant,

to reestablish the tribes of Jacob,

and restore the remnant ⁴  of Israel? ⁵ 

I will make you a light to the nations, ⁶ 

so you can bring ⁷  my deliverance to the remote regions of the earth.”

[42:16]  ¹ tn Heb “a way they do not know” (so NASB); NRSV “a road they do not know.”

[42:16]  ² tn Heb “in paths they do not know I will make them walk.”

[42:16]  ³ tn Heb “and the rough ground into a level place.”

[49:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “the protected [or “preserved”] ones.”

[49:6]  ⁵ sn The question is purely rhetorical; it does not imply that the servant was dissatisfied with his commission or that he minimized the restoration of Israel.

[49:6]  ⁶ tn See the note at 42:6.

[49:6]  ⁷ tn Heb “be” (so KJV, ASV); CEV “you must take.”