Isaiah 43:14–21

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.

²¹“The people whom ^aI formed for Myself

^bWill recount My praise.