Isaiah:43:11-25
rsv@Isaiah:43:11 @ I, I am the LORD, and besides me there is no savior.
rsv@Isaiah:43:12 @ I declared and saved and proclaimed, when there was no strange god among you; and you are my witnesses," says the LORD.
rsv@Isaiah:43:13 @ "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?"
rsv@Isaiah:43:14 @ Thus 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 Chalde'ans will be turned to lamentations.
rsv@Isaiah:43:15 @ I am the LORD, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King."
rsv@Isaiah:43:16 @ Thus says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters,
rsv@Isaiah:43:17 @ who brings forth chariot and horse, army and warrior; they lie down, they cannot rise, they are extinguished, quenched like a wick:
rsv@Isaiah:43:18 @ "Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old.
rsv@Isaiah:43:19 @ Behold, 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.
rsv@Isaiah:43:20 @ The 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,
rsv@Isaiah:43:21 @ the people whom I formed for myself that they might declare my praise.
rsv@Isaiah:43:22 @ "Yet you did not call upon me, O Jacob; but you have been weary of me, O Israel!
rsv@Isaiah:43:23 @ You have not brought me your sheep for burnt offerings, or honored me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings, or wearied you with frankincense.
rsv@Isaiah:43:24 @ You have not bought me sweet cane with money, or satisfied me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened me with your sins, you have wearied me with your iniquities.
rsv@Isaiah:43:25 @ "I, I am He who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.
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