Isaiah 43:10–20

¹⁰“You are my witnesses,” says the Lord,

“and my servant whom I have chosen,

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.

¹²I declared and saved and proclaimed,

when there was no strange god among you;

and you are my witnesses,” says the Lord.

¹³“I am God, and also henceforth I am He;

there is none who can deliver from my hand;

I work and who can hinder it?”

¹⁴Thus says the Lord,

your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:

“For your sake I will send to Babylon

and break down all the bars,

and the shouting of the Chaldeans will be turned to lamentations.^x

¹⁵I am the Lord, your Holy One,

the Creator of Israel, your King.”

¹⁶Thus says the Lord,

who makes a way in the sea,

a path in the mighty waters,

¹⁷who brings forth chariot and horse,

army and warrior;

they lie down, they cannot rise,

they are extinguished, quenched like a wick:

¹⁸“Remember not the former things,

nor consider the things of old.

¹⁹Behold, I am doing a new thing;

now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?

I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.

²⁰The wild beasts will honor me,

the jackals and the ostriches;

for I give water in the wilderness,

rivers in the desert,

to give drink to my chosen people,