¹⁷ Your life will be brighter than noonday;
its darkness^[a] will be like the morning.^(A)

⁶ making your righteousness shine like the dawn,
your justice like the noonday.^(A)

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 forsake them.^(D)

⁸ Then your light will appear like the dawn,
and your recovery will come quickly.^(A)
Your righteousness will go before you,^(B)
and the Lord’s glory will be your rear guard.^(C)