I will take hold of your hand

This is what God the LORD says— 

the Creator of the heavens, who stretches them out,
who spreads out the earth with all that springs from it,
who gives breath to its people,
and life to those who walk on it:
“I, the LORD, have called you in righteousness;
I will take hold of your hand.
I will keep you and will make you to be 

a covenant for the people 

and a light for the Gentiles,
to open eyes that are blind,
to free captives from prison
and to release from the dungeon 

those who sit in darkness."
“I am the LORD; that is my name!
I will not yield my glory to another or my praise to idols.
See, the former things have taken place,
and new things I declare;
before they spring into being I announce them to you...

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.
These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them." 

~Isaiah 42:5-9 & 16 [NIV]