16  ^eAnd I will lead the blind

in a way that they do not know,

in paths that they have not known

I will guide them.

I will turn the darkness before them into light,

^fthe rough places into level ground.

These are the things I do,

and I do not forsake them.

2  “I will go before you

and ^slevel the exalted places,¹

^tI will break in pieces the doors of bronze

and cut through the bars of iron,