Isaiah 43:10–20

¹⁰“People of Israel, you are my witnesses;

I chose you to be my servant,

so that you would know me and believe in me

and understand that I am the only God.

Besides me there is no other god;

there never was and never will be.

¹¹“I alone am the Lord,

the only one who can save you.

¹²I predicted what would happen,

and then I came to your aid. No foreign god has ever done this;

you are my witnesses.

¹³I am God and always will be. No one can escape from my power;

no one can change what I do.”

Escape from Babylon

¹⁴Israel’s holy God, the Lord who saves you, says,

“To save you, I will send an army against Babylon;

I will break down the city gates,

and the shouts of her people will turn into crying.

¹⁵I am the Lord, your holy God.

I created you, Israel, and I am your king.”

¹⁶Long ago the Lord made a road through the sea,

a path through the swirling waters.

¹⁷He led a mighty army to destruction,

an army of chariots and horses.

Down they fell, never to rise,

snuffed out like the flame of a lamp!

¹⁸But the Lord says,

“Do not cling to events of the past

or dwell on what happened long ago.

¹⁹Watch for the new thing I am going to do.

It is happening already—you can see it now!

I will make a road through the wilderness

and give you streams of water there.

²⁰Even the wild animals will honour me;

jackals and ostriches will praise me

when I make rivers flow in the desert

to give water to my chosen people.