God’s mercy and Israel’s unfaithfulness

14 This is what the Lord says –
    your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:
‘For your sake I will send to Babylon
    and bring down as fugitives all the Babylonians,[a]
    in the ships in which they took pride.
15 I am the Lord, your Holy One,
    Israel’s Creator, your King.’

16 This is what the Lord says –
    he who made a way through the sea,
    a path through the mighty waters,
17 who drew out the chariots and horses,
    the army and reinforcements together,
and they lay there, never to rise again,
    extinguished, snuffed out like a wick:
18 ‘Forget the former things;
    do not dwell on the past.
19 See, I am doing a new thing!
    Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness
    and streams in the wasteland.
20 The wild animals honour me,
    the jackals and the owls,
because I provide water in the wilderness
    and streams in the wasteland,
to give drink to my people, my chosen,
21     the people I formed for myself
    that they may proclaim my praise.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 43:14 Or Chaldeans