Rivers into Islands Lyrics

For a long time I have kept silent
I have been quiet and held myself back
But now, like a woman in childbirth
I cry out, I gasp and pant

I will lay waste the mountains and hills
And dry up all their vegetation
I will turn rivers into islands
And dry up the pools.

I will lead the blind
By ways they have not known
Along unfamiliar paths
I will guide them

I will turn the darkness
Into light before them
And make the rough places smooth
I will not forsake them

But those who trust in idols,
who say to images, ‘You are our gods,'
Will be turned back
In utter shame

Hear, you deaf!
Look, you blind
And see!

I will lead the blind
By ways they have not known
Along unfamiliar paths
I will guide them

I will turn the darkness
Into light before them
And make the rough places smooth
I will not forsake them

I, even I
Am he who blots out
Your transgressions for my own sake
And remembers your sins no more