Yahweh Rescues His People

• 14 Thus says Yahweh, your redeemer, 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 the Chaldeans ,[fn] their rejoicing on the ships.
  • 15 I am Yahweh, your holy one, the creator of Israel, your king.”
  • 16 Thus says Yahweh, who makes[fn] a way in the sea and a path in the mighty waters,
  • 17 who brings out chariot and horse, army and mighty one.
• Together they lie down;
  • they cannot rise.
• They are extinguished,
  • quenched like a wick.
  • 18 “You must not remember the former things, and you not must consider the former things.
  • 19 Look! I am about to do a new thing! Now it sprouts! Do you not perceive[fn] it?
• Indeed, I will make[fn] a way in the wilderness,
  • rivers in the desert.
  • 20 The animals of the field will honor me, 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 this people whom I formed for myself,
    

so they might ⌊make known⌋[fn] my praise.

• 22 But[fn] you did not call me, Jacob; for you have become weary of me, Israel.
• 23 You have not brought me your sheep for a burnt offering 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 You have not bought me spice reed with money 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 I, I am the one who blots out your transgressions for my sake, and I will not remember your sins.
  • 26 Take me to court; let us enter into judgment together. You, make an account[fn] so that you may be in the right.
  • 27 Your first ancestor[fn] sinned, and your representatives[fn] transgressed against me.
  • 28 And I profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and I gave Jacob to destruction, and Israel to reviling.