Isaiah 43:10–20

¹⁰“You are my witnesses,” declaresⁱ Yahweh,

“and my servant whom I have chosen

so that you may know and believe in^j me

and understand that I am he.

No god was formed before me^k,

and none shall be after me.

¹¹I myself am Yahweh,

and there is no savior besides me!

¹²I myself declared and saved,

and I proclaimed.^l And there was no strange god^m among you.

And you are my witnesses,” declaresⁿ Yahweh,

“and I am God.

¹³Indeed, from this day I am the one,

and no one can deliver from my hand.

I perform,^o and who can cancel it?”^p

Yahweh Rescues His People

¹⁴Thus says Yahweh, your redeemer,

the holy one of Israel:

“For your sake I will send to Babylon,

and I will cause all of them to fall down as fugitives,

and the Chaldeans,^q their rejoicing on the ships.

¹⁵I am Yahweh, your holy one,

the creator of Israel, your king.”

¹⁶Thus says Yahweh, who makes^r a way in the sea

and a path in the mighty waters,

¹⁷who brings out chariot and horse,

army and mighty one.

Together they lie down;

they cannot rise.

They are extinguished,

quenched like a wick.

¹⁸“You must not remember the former things,

and you must not consider the former things.

¹⁹Look! I am about to do a new thing! Now it sprouts!

Do you not perceive^s it?

Indeed, I will make^t a way in the wilderness,

rivers in the desert.

²⁰The animals of the field will honor me,

jackals and daughters of the ostrich,

for I give water in the wilderness,

rivers in the desert,

to give a drink to my chosen people,