Prepare the way of the Lord in the wilderness;^(A)
make a straight highway for our God in the desert.^(B)

¹⁶ I will lead the blind by a way they did not know;^(A)
I will guide them on paths they have not known.
I will turn darkness to light in front of them^(B)
and rough places into level ground.^(C)
This is what I will do for them,
and I will not abandon them.^(D)

¹⁹ Look, I am about to do something new;^(A)
even now it is coming. Do you not see it?
Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness,^(B)
rivers^[a] in the desert.