“Stand at the crossroads and look;
    ask for the ancient paths,^(A)
ask where the good way^(B) is, and walk in it,
    and you will find rest^(C) for your souls.
    But you said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

¹⁸ “Forget the former things;^(A)
    do not dwell on the past.
¹⁹ See, I am doing a new thing!^(B)
    Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness^(C)
    and streams in the wasteland.^(D)