Isaiah 43:10–20

¹⁰“You are my witnesses,” declares the Lord. 

“I have chosen you as my servant 

so that you can know and believe in me 

and understand that I am the one ⸤who did this⸥. 

No god was formed before me, 

and there will be none after me. 

¹¹I alone am the Lord, 

and there is no savior except me. 

¹²I have revealed it to you, I have saved you, 

and I have announced it to you. 

There was no foreign ⸤god⸥ among you. 

You are my witnesses that I am God,” declares the Lord. 

¹³“From the ⸤first⸥ day I was the one ⸤who did this⸥. 

No one can rescue people from my power. 

When I do something, who can undo it?” 

¹⁴This is what the Lord, your Defender, the Holy One of Israel, says: 

For your sake I will send ⸤an army⸥ to Babylon. 

I will bring back all the Babylonian refugees 

in the ships that they take pride in. 

¹⁵I am the Lord, your Holy One, 

the Creator of Israel, your King. 

Despite the People of Israel’s Past Sin, the Lord Will Forgive Them

¹⁶The Lord makes a path through the sea 

and a road through the strong currents. 

¹⁷He leads chariots and horses, an army and reinforcements. 

(They lie down together and do not get up ⸤again⸥. 

They are extinguished and snuffed out like a wick.) 

This is what the Lord says: 

¹⁸Forget what happened in the past, 

and do not dwell on events from long ago. 

¹⁹I am going to do something new. 

It is already happening. Don’t you recognize it? 

I will clear a way in the desert. 

I will make rivers on dry land. 

²⁰Wild animals, jackals, and ostriches will honor me. 

I will provide water in the desert. 

I will make rivers on the dry land for my chosen people to drink.