11. Let the desert and its towns shout aloud,the villages that Kedar inhabits.Let the cliff dwellers sing;from the top of the mountains let them shout.
12. Let them give the Lord gloryand declare God’s praise in the coastlands.
13. The Lord will go out like a soldier;like a warrior God will stir up rage.God will shout, will roar;over enemies he will prevail.
14. I’ve kept still for a very long time.I’ve been silent and restrained myself.Like a woman in labor I will moan;I will pant, I will gasp.
15. I will wither mountains and valleys,and I will dry up all their vegetation.I will turn rivers into deserts,and I will dry up pools.
16. I will make the blind walk a road they don’t know,and I will guide them in paths they don’t know.But I will make darkness before them into lightand rough places into level ground.These things I will do;I won’t abandon them.
17. Turned backward, utterly shamedare those who trust in idols,who say to a cast image,"You are our god!"
18. Hear, deaf ones,and blind ones, look and see!
19. Who is blind if not my servantand deaf like my messenger whom I send?Who is blind like the restored one,blind like the servant of the Lord?
20. You have seen many things, but don’t keep watch.With ears open, you don’t hear.