Isaiah 43:3–11

³For I am the Lord your God,

the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.

I give Egypt as your ransom,

Cush and Seba in exchange for you.^*

⁴Because you are precious in my sight

and honored and I love you,

I give people in return for you,

nations in exchange for your life.^*

⁵Do not fear, for I am with you;

I will bring your offspring from the east,

and from the west I will gather you;^*

⁶I will say to the north, “Give them up,”

and to the south, “Do not withhold;

bring my sons from far away

and my daughters from the end of the earth—^*

⁷everyone who is called by my name,

whom I created for my glory,

whom I formed and made.”^*

⁸Bring forth the people who are blind yet have eyes,

who are deaf yet have ears!^*

⁹Let all the nations gather together,

and let the peoples assemble.

Who among them declared this

and foretold to us the former things?

Let them bring their witnesses to justify them,

and let them hear and say, “It is true.”^*

¹⁰You are my witnesses, says the Lord,

and my servant whom I have chosen,

so that you may know and believe me

and understand that I am he.

Before me no god was formed,

nor shall there be any after me.^*

¹¹I, I am the Lord,

and besides me there is no savior.^*