⁸ Bring out the blind people who have eyes,
    and the deaf who have ears.
⁹ Let all the nations be gathered together,
    and let the peoples be assembled.
Who among them can declare this,
    and show us former things?
Let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified,
    or let them hear, and say, “That is true.”

¹⁰ “You are my witnesses,” says Yahweh,
    “With my servant whom I have chosen;
    that you may know and believe me,
    and understand that I am he.
Before me there was no God formed,
    neither will there be after me.
¹¹ I myself am Yahweh.
    Besides me, there is no savior.
¹² I have declared, I have saved, and I have shown,
    and there was no strange god among you.
Therefore you are my witnesses”,
    says Yahweh, “and I am God.
¹³ Yes, since the day was, I am he.
    There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.
    I will work, and who can hinder it?”

    and a path in the mighty waters,
¹⁷ who brings out the chariot and horse,
    the army and the mighty man
    (they lie down together, they shall not rise;
    they are extinct, they are quenched like a wick) says:
¹⁸ “Don’t remember the former things,
    and don’t consider the things of old.
¹⁹ Behold, I will do a new thing.
    It springs out now.
    Don’t you know it?
I will even make a way in the wilderness,
    and rivers in the desert.
²⁰ The animals of the field, the jackals and the ostriches, shall honor me,
    because I give water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert,
    to give drink to my people, my chosen,
²¹     the people which I formed for myself,
    that they might declare my praise.

²² Yet you have not called on me, Jacob;
    but you have been weary of me, Israel.
²³ You have not brought me any of your sheep for burnt offerings,
    neither have you honored me with your sacrifices.
I have not burdened you with offerings,
    nor wearied you with frankincense.
²⁴ You have bought me no sweet cane with money,
    nor have you filled me with the fat of your sacrifices,
but you have burdened me with your sins.
    You have wearied me with your iniquities.

²⁵ I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake;
    and I will not remember your sins.
²⁶ Put me in remembrance.
    Let us plead together.
Declare your case,
    that you may be justified.
²⁷ Your first father sinned,
    and your teachers have transgressed against me.
²⁸ Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary;
    and I will make Jacob a curse,
    and Israel an insult.”

44 Yet listen now, Jacob my servant,
    and Israel, whom I have chosen.
² This is what Yahweh who made you,
    and formed you from the womb,
    who will help you says:
“Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant;
    and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.
³ For I will pour water on him who is thirsty,
    and streams on the dry ground.
I will pour my Spirit on your descendants,
    and my blessing on your offspring:
⁴ and they will spring up among the grass,
    as willows by the watercourses.
⁵ One will say, ‘I am Yahweh’s;’
    and another will be called by the name of Jacob;
    and another will write with his hand ‘to Yahweh,’
    and honor the name of Israel.”