Hosea 2:6

He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.

The eyes of those who see will not be dim, and the ears of those who hear will listen.

Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low. The uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain.

Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, along with the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her who travails with child together. They will return as a great company.

Every valley will be filled. Every mountain and hill will be brought low. The crooked will become straight, and the rough ways smooth.

“But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is at hand.

Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

For Yahweh won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called “The Holy Way”. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools shall not go there.

saying to those who are bound, ‘Come out!’; to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves!’ “They shall feed along the paths, and their pasture shall be on all treeless heights.

They will call them “The Holy People, Yahweh’s Redeemed”. You will be called “Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken”.

O Yahweh, why do you make us wander from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants’ sake, the tribes of your inheritance.

Shepherds with their flocks will come to her. They will pitch their tents against her all around. They will feed everyone in his place.”

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took and went, as Jesse had commanded him. He came to the place of the wagons, as the army which was going out to the fight shouted for the battle.

or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.

For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.

You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can’t escape.

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke away their chains.

Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

Why do you say, Jacob, and speak, Israel, “My way is hidden from Yahweh, and the justice due me is disregarded by my God?”

The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

and if you pour out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will rise in darkness, and your obscurity will be as the noonday;

Then they took Jeremiah and threw him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king’s son, that was in the court of the guard. They let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.

He has built against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

Lay siege against it, build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it. Also set camps against it and plant battering rams against it all around.

He will kill your daughters in the field with the sword. He will make forts against you, cast up a mound against you, and raise up the buckler against you.

“When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),

Nicodemus answered him, “How can these things be?”

Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.

Yahweh’s angel went further, and stood in a narrow place, where there was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.

Yet there shall be a space between you and it of about two thousand cubits by measure—don’t come closer to it—that you may know the way by which you must go; for you have not passed this way before.”

Therefore Yahweh brought on them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?

that he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.

“Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”

That which is crooked can’t be made straight; and that which is lacking can’t be counted.

Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked?

The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the arrogance of men will be bowed down, and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.

Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don’t see; but they will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed. Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.

They also who err in spirit will come to understanding, and those who grumble will receive instruction.”

His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction. A bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the peoples.

Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.

He pursues them and passes by safely, even by a way that he had not gone with his feet.

I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.

“I will go before you and make the rough places smooth. I will break the doors of bronze in pieces and cut apart the bars of iron.

Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.

All your children will be taught by Yahweh; and your children’s peace will be great.

Now, behold, I release you today from the chains which are on your hand. If it seems good to you to come with me into Babylon, come, and I will take care of you; but if it seems bad to you to come with me into Babylon, don’t. Behold, all the land is before you. Where it seems good and right to you to go, there go.”

“The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand. They are knit together. They have come up on my neck. He made my strength fail. The Lord has delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.

He has walled me about, so that I can’t go out. He has made my chain heavy.

He has walled up my ways with cut stone. He has made my paths crooked.

He has turned away my ways, and pulled me in pieces. He has made me desolate.

Our pursuers are on our necks. We are weary, and have no rest.

“ ‘Make chains; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

They will comfort you, when you see their way and their doings; then you will know that I have not done all that I have done in it without cause,” says the Lord Yahweh.

He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, by bringing on us a great evil; for under the whole sky, such has not been done as has been done to Jerusalem.

“Therefore behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.

Behold, two blind men sitting by the road, when they heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out, “Lord, have mercy on us, you son of David!”

When the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.

While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered many things today in a dream because of him.”

to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

Jesus answered them, “Go and tell John the things which you have seen and heard: that the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

If therefore your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly full of light, as when the lamp with its bright shining gives you light.”

Immediately he received his sight and followed him, glorifying God. All the people, when they saw it, praised God.

For the days will come on you, when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side,

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days! For there will be great distress in the land, and wrath to this people.

In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.

When I couldn’t see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand of those who were with me, I came into Damascus.

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, a thorn in the flesh was given to me: a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.

and make straight paths for your feet, so what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.

They went up over the width of the earth, and surrounded the camp of the saints, and the beloved city. Fire came down out of heaven from God and devoured them.