Isaiah 43:14–28

¹⁴Thus said Jehovah, your Redeemer, The Holy One of Israel: ‘For your sake I have sent to Babylon, And caused bars to descend—all of them, And the Chaldeans, whose song is in the ships. ¹⁵I am Jehovah, your Holy One, Creator of Israel, your King.’ ¹⁶Thus said Jehovah, Who is giving in the sea a way, And in the strong waters a path. ¹⁷Who is bringing forth chariot and horse, A force, even a strong one: ‘Together they lie down—they rise not, They have been extinguished, As flax they have been quenched.’ ¹⁸Remember not former things, And ancient things consider not. ¹⁹Lo, I am doing a new thing, now it springeth up, Do ye not know it? Yea, I put in a wilderness a way, In a desolate place—floods. ²⁰Honour me doth the beast of the field, Dragons and daughters of an ostrich, For I have given in a wilderness waters, Floods in a desolate place, To give drink to My people—My chosen. ²¹This people I have formed for Myself, My praise they recount.

²²And Me thou hast not called, O Jacob, For thou hast been wearied of me, O Israel, ²³Thou hast not brought in to Me, The lamb of thy burnt-offerings, And with thy sacrifices thou hast not honoured Me, I have not caused thee to serve with a present, Nor wearied thee with frankincense. ²⁴Thou hast not bought for Me with money sweet cane, And with the fat of thy sacrifices hast not filled Me, Only—thou hast caused Me to serve with thy sins, Thou hast wearied Me with thine iniquities. ²⁵I—I am He who is blotting out Thy transgressions for Mine own sake, And thy sins I do not remember. ²⁶Cause me to remember—we are judged together, Declare thou that thou mayest be justified. ²⁷Thy first father sinned, And thine interpreters transgressed against me, ²⁸And I pollute princes of the sanctuary, And I give Jacob to destruction, and Israel to revilings!

Chapter 44