Isaiah 43:10–20

¹⁰“You are ^aMy witnesses,” declares the Lord,

“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 the Lord,

And there is no ^asavior ^bbesides Me.

¹²“It is I who have declared and saved and proclaimed,

And there was no ^astrange god among you;

So you are My witnesses,” declares the Lord,

“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?”

Babylon to Be Destroyed

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

“For your sake I have sent to Babylon,

And will bring them all down as fugitives,

¹Even the ^bChaldeans, into the ^cships ²in which they rejoice.

¹⁵“I am the Lord, your Holy One,

^aThe Creator of Israel, your ^bKing.”

¹⁶Thus says the Lord,

Who ^amakes a way through the sea

And a path through the mighty waters,

¹⁷Who brings forth the ^achariot and the horse,

The army and the mighty man

(They will lie down together and not rise again;

They have been ^bquenched and extinguished like a wick):

¹⁸“^aDo not call to mind the former things,

Or ponder things of the past.

¹⁹“Behold, I will do something ^anew,

Now it will spring forth;

Will you not be aware of it?

I will even ^bmake a roadway in the wilderness,

Rivers in the desert.

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 desert,

To give drink to My chosen people.