1BUT now thus says the LORD, who created you, O Jacob, and he who formed you, O Israel: Fear not; for I have saved you, I have called you by your name because you are mine.

2When you shall pass through the sea, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon you.

3For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Saviour; I gave Egypt for your sake, and Ethiopia and Sheba for you.

4Because you are precious in my sight, you have been honorable and I have loved you; therefore I have given men for your sake and nations for your life.

5Fear not; for I am with you; I will bring your descendants from the east, and gather you from the west;

6I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back; bring my sons from afar, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;

7Even every one who is called by my name; for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him and I have made him.

8Bring forth the blind people who have eyes, and the deaf who have ears.

9Let all the peoples be gathered together and let all the nations be assembled; who among you can declare this and show us the former things? Let them bring forth their witnesses that they may be justified; or let them hear and say, It is truth.

10You are my witnesses, says the LORD, and my servants whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he; before me there was no God created, neither shall there be after me.

11I, even I, am the LORD; and besides me there is no lord.

12I have declared that I have saved, and I have proclaimed that there is no strange god among you; therefore you are my witnesses, says the LORD, that I am God.

13Yea, from the first day I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hands; what I will do, who can stop it?

14Thus says the LORD, your Saviour, the Holy One of Israel: For your sake I have sent to Babylon and have brought back all the fugitives and the Chaldeans who glory in their ships.

15I am the LORD, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.

16Thus says the LORD, who has made a way in the sea and a path in the mighty waters;

17Who brings forth the chariots and horses and a mighty army; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise, they are extinguished like a flickering lamp:

18Remember not the former things, neither consider the things of old.

19Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth and you shall know it. I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.

20The beasts of the field shall glorify me, the jackals and the ostriches, because I give waters in the wilderness and rivers in the desert to provide drink to my people, my chosen.

21This people whom I have chosen for myself, they shall drink.

22But you have not called me, O Jacob; for I have called you, O Israel.

23You have not brought me lambs of your burnt offerings; neither have you honored me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with request offerings, nor wearied you with demands for incense.

24You have bought me no sweet cane with money, neither have you filled me with the fat of your sacrifices; but you have burdened me with your sins, you have wearied me with your iniquities.

25I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake and will not remember your sins any more.

26Put me in remembrance; let us plead together; that you may be justified.

27Your first father has sinned, and your rulers have transgressed against me.

28Your princes have profaned the sanctuary; therefore I have given Jacob to the curse and Israel to reproaches.