¹⁹ See, I am doing a new thing!^(A)
    Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness^(B)
    and streams in the wasteland.^(C)

¹⁷ But as for me, I am poor and needy;^(A)
    may the Lord think^(B) of me.
You are my help^(C) and my deliverer;^(D)
    you are my God, do not delay.^(E)

¹³ I was pushed back and about to fall,
    but the Lord helped me.^(A)
14 The Lord is my strength^(B) and my defense^[a];
    he has become my salvation.^(C)

“See, I will refine^(A) and test^(B) them,
    for what else can I do
    because of the sin of my people?