Isaiah 43:14–28

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,

²¹this people whom I formed for myself,

so they might make known^u my praise.

²²But^v you did not call me, Jacob;

for you have become weary of me, Israel.

²³You have not brought me your sheep for a burnt offering

nor^w honored me with your sacrifice.

I have not made you serve with offerings,^x

nor have I made you weary with frankincense.

²⁴You have not bought me spice reed with money

or^y satisfied me with the fat of sacrifices.

But you have burdened me with your sins;

you have made me weary with your iniquities.

²⁵I, I am the one who blots out your transgressions for my sake,

and I will not remember your sins.

²⁶Take me to court; let us enter into judgment together.

You, make an account^z so that you may be in the right.

²⁷Your first ancestor^a sinned,

and your representatives^b transgressed against me.

²⁸And I profaned the princes of the sanctuary,

and I gave Jacob to destruction, and Israel to reviling.