Isaiah 43:10–20

¹⁰The Lord says, “You are my witnesses

and the servant I chose.

I chose you so you would know and believe me,

so you would understand that I am the true God.

There was no God before me,

and there will be no God after me.

¹¹I myself am the Lord;

I am the only Savior.

¹²I myself have spoken to you, saved you, and told you these things.

It was not some foreign god among you.

You are my witnesses, and I am God,”

says the Lord.

¹³“I have always been God.

No one can save people from my power;

when I do something, no one can change it.”

¹⁴This is what the Lord, who saves you,

the Holy One of Israel, says:

“I will send armies to Babylon for you,

and I will knock down all its locked gates.

The Babylonians will shout their cries of sorrow.

¹⁵I am the Lord, your Holy One,

the Creator of Israel, your King.”

God Will Save His People Again

¹⁶This is what the Lord says.

He is the one who made a road through the sea

and a path through rough waters.

¹⁷He is the one who defeated the chariots and horses

and the mighty armies.

They fell together and will never rise again.

They were destroyed as a flame is put out.

¹⁸The Lord says, “Forget what happened before,

and do not think about the past.

¹⁹Look at the new thing I am going to do.

It is already happening. Don’t you see it?

I will make a road in the desert

and rivers in the dry land.

²⁰Even the wild animals will be thankful to me—

the wild dogs and owls.

They will honor me when I put water in the desert

and rivers in the dry land

to give water to my people, the ones I chose.