³ A voice of one calling:
“In the wilderness prepare
    the way^(A) for the Lord^[a];
make straight^(B) in the desert
    a highway for our God.^[b](C)

¹⁶ I will lead^(A) the blind^(B) by ways they have not known,
    along unfamiliar paths I will guide them;
I will turn the darkness into light^(C) before them
    and make the rough places smooth.^(D)
These are the things I will do;
    I will not forsake^(E) them.

¹⁶ This is what the Lord says—
    he who made a way through the sea,
    a path through the mighty waters,^(A)

¹⁹ See, I am doing a new thing!^(A)
    Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness^(B)
    and streams in the wasteland.^(C)