¹And now, this is what the Lord,

Your creator, O Jacob,

And your fashioner, O Israel,

Says:

“Do not fear, for I have redeemed you.

I have called you by your name;

You are mine.

²When you cross over water,

I will be with you,

And when you traverse rivers,

They will not overwhelm you.

When you go through fire,

You will not be scorched,

And not a flame will burn you.

³For I am the Lord your God,

The holy one of Israel,

Your saviour.

I have given Egypt as a ransom for you,

And Ethiopia and Seba on behalf of you,

⁴Because you are precious in my eyes;

You are honoured, and I love you,

And I will give a man for you,

And nations for your existence.

⁵Do not fear, for I am with you.

I will bring your seed from the east,

And I will gather you from the west.

⁶I will say to the north,

‘Give them up’,

And to the south,

‘Do not shut them in.’

Bring my sons from afar,

And my daughters from the end of the earth.

⁷I created everyone who is called by my name,

And it is for my glory.

I fashioned him;

Indeed, I made him.

⁸Bring out the blind people

Who nevertheless have eyes,

And the deaf

Who nevertheless have ears.

⁹All the Gentiles will be gathered together,

And the nations will be assembled.

Who among them can recount this

And proclaim to us the former things?

Let them produce their witnesses

And be justified.

Or let them hear, and let them say,

‘It is the truth.’

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 fashioned

Nor will there be after me.

¹¹I, I am the Lord,

And there is no saviour besides me.

¹²I have declared it,

And I have saved,

And I have proclaimed it,

While among you there is nothing extraneous,

And you are my witnesses,

Says the Lord,

And I am God.

¹³Indeed, since the existence of a day,

I am he,

And there is no-one who delivers from my hand.

I act,

And who can avert it?”

¹⁴This is what the Lord, your redeemer,

The holy one of Israel, says:

“For your sake I have sent a force to Babylon,

And I have brought down all the fugitives,

And the Chaldeans are in outcry in their ships.

¹⁵I am the Lord your holy one,

The creator of Israel,

Your king.”

¹⁶This is what the Lord

– Who makes a passage in the sea,

And a route in raging water,

¹⁷Who brings out chariot and horse,

An army and a force – says:

“They will lie down together,

They will not get up,

They will be extinguished;

They will be snuffed out like a wick.

¹⁸Do not remember the former things,

And do not consider ancient matters.

– It will spring up now.

Do you not know it?

Indeed, I will build a road in the desert

And establish rivers in the wasteland.

²⁰The wildlife will glorify me

– The jackals and the ostriches –

Because I will have given them water in the desert

And rivers in the wasteland,

To give drink to my chosen people

²¹– A people whom I fashioned for myself,

Who will relate my praiseworthiness.

²²And it is not that you called me,

O Jacob,

For you have grown weary of me,

O Israel.

²³You have not brought me the sheep

For your burnt offerings,

And you have not honoured me with your sacrifices.

I have not overburdened you with the meal-offering,

And I have not wearied you with incense.

²⁴You have not bought me sweet cane with money,

And you have not satiated me with the fat of your sacrifices,

But you have overburdened me with your sins

And wearied me with your iniquities.

²⁵I, I am he

Who wipes out your trespasses

For my own sake,

And I will not remember your sins.

²⁶Bring me to remembrance;

Let us appeal to law together.

Put your case

So that you may be justified.

²⁷Your first father sinned,

And your mediators have transgressed against me.

²⁸So I have profaned the holy officiators,

And I have consigned Jacob to condemnation,

And Israel to reproaches.

Reference(s) in Chapter 43: v.19 ↔ Revelation 21:5.