Isaiah, Chapter 43

1. But now thus says the LORD that created you, O Jacob, and he that formed you, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed you, I have called you by your name; you are mine.    2. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you: when you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon you.    3. For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Saviour: I gave Egypt for your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for you.    4. Since you were precious in my sight, you have been honourable, and I have loved you: therefore will I give men for you, and people for your life.    5. Fear not: for I am with you: I will bring your seed from the east, and gather you from the west;    6. I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;    7. Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.    8. Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.    9. Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and show us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth.    10. All of you are my witnesses, says the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that all of you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.    11. I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.    12. I have declared, and have saved, and I have showed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore all of you are my witnesses, says the LORD, that I am God.    13. Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?    14. Thus says the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships.    15. I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King.    16. Thus says the LORD, which makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;    17. Which brings forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow.    18. Remember all of you not the former things, neither consider the things of old.    19. Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall all of you not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.    20. The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.    21. This people have I formed for myself; they shall show forth my praise.    22. But you have not called upon me, O Jacob; but you have been weary of me, O Israel.    23. You have not brought me the small cattle of your burnt offerings; neither have you honoured me with your sacrifices. I have not caused you to serve with an offering, nor wearied you with incense.    24. You have bought me no sweet cane with money, neither have you filled me with the fat of your sacrifices: but you have made me to serve with your sins, you have wearied me with yours iniquities.    25. I, even I, am he that blots out your transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember your sins.    26. Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare you, that you may be justified.    27. Your first father has sinned, and your teachers have transgressed against me.    28. Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.