Isaiah 43:7–19

7 Everyone who is kcalled by My name,

Whom lI have created for My glory;

I have formed him, yes, I have made him.”

8 mBring out the blind people who have eyes,

And the ndeaf who have ears.

9 Let all the nations be gathered together,

And let the people be assembled.

oWho among them can declare this,

And show us former things?

Let them bring out their witnesses, that they may be justified;

Or let them hear and say, “It is truth.”

10 “You pare My witnesses,” says the Lord,

q“And My servant whom I have chosen,

That you may know and rbelieve Me,

And understand that I am He.

Before Me there was no God formed,

Nor shall there be after Me.

11 I, even I, sam the Lord,

And besides Me there is no savior.

12 I have declared and saved,

I have proclaimed,

And there was no tforeign god among you;

uTherefore you are My witnesses,”

Says the Lord, “that I am God.

13 vIndeed before the day was, I am He;

And there is no one who can deliver out of My hand;

I work, and who will wreverse it?”

14 Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer,

The Holy One of Israel:

“For your sake I will send to Babylon,

And bring them all down as fugitives—

The Chaldeans, who rejoice in their ships.

15 I am the Lord, your Holy One,

The Creator of Israel, your xKing.”

16 Thus says the Lord, who ymakes a way in the sea

And a zpath through the mighty waters,

17 Who abrings forth the chariot and horse,

The army and the power

(They shall lie down together, they shall not rise;

They are extinguished, they are quenched like a wick):

18 “Do bnot remember the former things,

Nor consider the things of old.

19 Behold, I will do a cnew thing,

Now it shall spring forth;

Shall you not know it?

dI will even make a road in the wilderness

And rivers in the desert.