• ¹But now thus says Yahweh who created you, Jacob,
• and he who formed you, Israel:

• “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you.
• I have called you by your name.
• You are mine.

• ²When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;
• and through the rivers, they will not overflow you.

• When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned,
• and flame will not scorch you.

• ³For I am Yahweh your God,
• the Holy One of Israel,
• your Savior.

• I have given Egypt as your ransom,
• Ethiopia and Seba in your place.

• ⁴Since you have been precious and honored in my sight,
• and I have loved you;
• therefore I will give people in your place,
• and nations instead of your life.

• ⁵Don’t be afraid; for I am with you.
• I will bring your seed from the east,
• and gather you from the west.

• ⁶I will tell the north, ‘Give them up!’
• and tell the south, ‘Don’t hold them back!
• Bring my sons from far,
• and my daughters from the ends of the earth—

• ⁷everyone who is called by my name,
• and whom I have created for my glory,
• whom I have formed,
• yes, whom I have made.’”

• ⁸Bring out the blind people who have eyes,
• and the deaf who have ears.

• ⁹Let 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.

• ¹¹I myself am Yahweh;
• and besides me there is no savior.

• ¹²I 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.

• ¹³Yes, since the day was I am he;
• and there is no one who can deliver out of my hand.
• I will work, and who can hinder it?”

¹⁴Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “For your sake, I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring all of them down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships of their rejoicing. ¹⁵I am Yahweh, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.”

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• Thus says Yahweh, who makes a way in the sea,
• and a path in the mighty waters;

• ¹⁷who brings forth 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):

• ¹⁸“Don’t remember the former things,
• and don’t consider the things of old.

• ¹⁹Behold, I will do a new thing.
• It springs forth now.
• Don’t you know it?

• I will even make a way in the wilderness,
• and rivers in the desert.

• ²⁰The animals of the field shall honor me,
• the jackals and the ostriches;

• because I give water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert,
• to give drink to my people, my chosen,
• ²¹the people which I formed for myself,
• that they might set forth my praise.

• ²²Yet you have not called on me, Jacob;
• but you have been weary of me, Israel.

• ²³You have not brought me 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.

• ²⁴You 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.

• ²⁵I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake;
• and I will not remember your sins.

• ²⁶Put me in remembrance.
• Let us plead together.

• Set forth your case,
• that you may be justified.

• ²⁷Your first father sinned,
• and your teachers have transgressed against me.

• ²⁸Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary;
• and I will make Jacob a curse,
• and Israel an insult.”