Isaiah 41:3

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,

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.

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”.

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.”

He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked will be put to silence in darkness; for no man will prevail by strength.

They buried him in his own tomb, which he had dug out for himself in David’s city, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumers’ art; and they made a very great fire for him.

The light will be dark in his tent. His lamp above him will be put out.

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

no evil shall happen to you, neither shall any plague come near your dwelling.

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.

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;

They have set her a bed among the slain with all her multitude. Her graves are around her; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for their terror was caused in the land of the living, and they have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit. He is put among those who are slain.

“Now you are releasing your servant, Master, according to your word, in peace;

The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.

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

I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.”

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.

They didn’t see one another, and nobody rose from his place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.

You shall be blessed when you come in, and you shall be blessed when you go out.

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.”

For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people for himself.

When David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, their sons, and their daughters were taken captive.

Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don’t let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.

Solomon answered all her questions. There wasn’t anything hidden from the king which he didn’t tell her.

Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a straight way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our possessions.

There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.

You will know that your tent is in peace. You will visit your fold, and will miss nothing.

If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.

If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,

There will dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur will be scattered on his habitation.

Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.”

Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation, I wait for you all day long.

His soul will dwell at ease. His offspring will inherit the land.

They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in.

He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.

Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind. Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down. Yahweh loves the righteous.

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?

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

All the kings of the nations, sleep in glory, everyone in his own house.

The way of the just is uprightness. You who are upright make the path of the righteous level.

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

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

to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.

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.

He enters into peace. They rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.

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.

Therefore behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can’t find her way.

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

seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,

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!”

“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

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.

He said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you. Go in peace.”

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.

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.’

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

But I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.

and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,

There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

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

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.