Isaiah 43:12-21
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
12 I am the one who declared and saved and proclaimed,
not some strange god among you;
you are my witnesses, says the Lord, and I am God.(A)
13 Indeed, since that day I am he;
there is no one who can deliver from my hand;
I work, and who can hinder it?(B)
14 Thus says the Lord,
your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:
For your sake I will send to Babylon
and break down all the bars,
and the shouting of the Chaldeans will be turned to lamentation.[a](C)
15 I am the Lord, your Holy One,
the Creator of Israel, your King.
16 Thus says the Lord,
who makes a way in the sea,
a path in the mighty waters,(D)
17 who brings out chariot and horse,
army and warrior;
they lie down; they cannot rise;
they are extinguished, quenched like a wick:(E)
18 Do not remember the former things
or consider the things of old.(F)
19 I am about to do a new thing;
now it springs forth; do you not perceive it?
I will make a way in the wilderness
and rivers in the desert.(G)
20 The wild animals will honor me,
the jackals and the ostriches,
for I give water in the wilderness,
rivers in the desert,
to give drink to my chosen people,(H)
21 the people whom I formed for myself
so that they might declare my praise.(I)
Footnotes
- 43.14 Meaning of Heb uncertain
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