LEB ISA Chapter 43

The Restorer of Israel

• 43 But now thus says Yahweh,he who created you, Jacob,
  • and he who formed you, Israel:
• “You must not fear, for I have redeemed you.
  • I have called you by your name;[fn]
  • 2 will be with you, and through the rivers, they shall not flow over you.
• When you walk through fire, you shall not be burned,
  • and the flame shall not scorch[fn] you.
  • 3 am Yahweh, your God, the holy one of Israel, your savior.
• I give you Egypt as ransom,
  • Cush and Seba in place of you.
  • 4  you are honored, and I myself love you,
• and I give people in place of you,
  • and nations in place of your life.
  • 5  for I am with you.
• I will bring your[fn] from the east,
  • and I will gather you from the west.
  • 6  and to the south, ‘You must not withhold!’
• Bring my sons from far away,
• and my daughters from the end of the earth—
  • 7  and whom I created for my glory,
• whom I formed,
  • indeed whom I made.”
  • 8 the people blind yet[fn] with eyes, and deaf, though[fn] they have ears.
  • 9 and let the peoples assemble.
• Who among them has declared this,
  • and[fn] the former things to us?
• Let them bring[fn] their witnesses, that[fn] they may be in the right,
  • and let them hear and say, “ It is true!”
  • 10 are my witnesses,”[fn] Yahweh, “and my servant whom I have chosen
• so that you may know and believe[fn] me
  • and understand that I am he.
• No god was formed before[fn],
  • and none shall be after me.
  • 11 am Yahweh, and there is no savior besides me!
  • 12  and I[fn] And there was no [fn] among you.
• And you are my witnesses,”[fn] Yahweh,
  • “and I am God.
  • 13 this day I am the one, and no one can deliver from my hand.
    • I perform,[fn] and who can [fn]

Yahweh Rescues His People

• 14 the holy one of Israel:
• “For your sake I will send to Babylon,
  • and I will cause all of them to fall down as fugitives,
    • and[fn] their rejoicing on the ships.
  • 15 am Yahweh, your holy one, the creator of Israel, your king.”
  • 16 [fn] a way in the sea and a path in the mighty waters,
  • 17  army and mighty one.
• Together they lie down;
  • they cannot rise.
• They are extinguished,
  • quenched like a wick.
  • 18 the former things, and you not must consider the former things.
  • 19 am about to do a new thing! Now it sprouts! Do you not perceive[fn] it?
• Indeed, I will[fn] a way in the wilderness,
  • rivers in the desert.
  • 20  jackals and daughters of the ostrich,
• for I give water in the wilderness,
  • rivers in the desert,
• to give a drink to my chosen people,

21 so they might make known[fn] my praise.

• 22 [fn] you did not call me, Jacob; for you have become weary of me, Israel.
• 23  nor[fn] honored me with your sacrifice.
• I have not made you serve with offerings,[fn]
  • nor have I made you weary with frankincense.
  • 24  or[fn] satisfied me with the fat of sacrifices.
• But you have burdened me with your sins;
  • you have made me weary with your iniquities.
  • 25  and I will not remember your sins.
  • 26  You,[fn] so that you may be in the right.
  • 27 [fn] sinned, and your[fn] transgressed against me.
  • 28 the princes of the sanctuary, and I gave Jacob to destruction, and Israel to reviling.