Isaiah 43:10–20

¹⁰“You are ^aMy witnesses,” declares Yahweh,

“And ^bMy servant whom I have chosen,

So that you may know and believe Me

And understand that ^cI am He.

^dBefore Me there was no god formed,

And there will be none after Me.

¹¹“I, even I, am Yahweh,

And there is no ^asavior ^bbesides Me.

¹²“It is I who have declared and saved and caused it to be heard,

And there was no ^astrange god among you;

So you are My witnesses,” declares Yahweh,

“And I am God.

¹³“Even ^1afrom eternity ^bI am He,

And there is ^cnone who can deliver out of My hand;

^dI act and who can reverse it?”

Rivers in the Wasteland

¹⁴Thus says Yahweh your ^aRedeemer, the Holy One of Israel,

“For your sake I have sent to Babylon,

And will bring down those who fled—all of them,

¹Even the ^bChaldeans—into the ^cships ²in which they shouted for joy.

¹⁵“I am Yahweh, your Holy One,

^aThe Creator of Israel, your ^bKing.”

¹⁶Thus says Yahweh,

Who ^amakes a way through the sea

And a path through the mighty waters,

¹⁷Who brings forth the ^achariot and the horse,

The military force and the mighty man;

They will lie down together and not rise again;

They have been ^bextinguished and quenched like a wick:

¹⁸“^aDo not remember the former things,

Nor carefully consider things of the past.

¹⁹“Behold, I will do something ^anew;

Now it will spring forth;

Will you not know it?

I will even ^bmake a roadway in the wilderness,

Rivers in the wasteland.

²⁰“The beasts of the field will glorify Me,

The ^ajackals and the ostriches,

Because I have ^bgiven waters in the wilderness

And rivers in the wasteland,

To give drink to My chosen people.