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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Now this is what the LORD says--the one who created you, Jacob, and the one who formed you, Israel--"Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are mine. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2I will be with you when you pass through the waters, and when you pass through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. You will not be scorched when you walk through the fire, and the flame will not burn you. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, and your Savior. I have given Egypt as a ransom for you, Cush and Seba in your place. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Because you are precious in my sight and honored, and I love you, I will give people in exchange for you and nations instead of your life. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Do not fear, for I am with you; I will bring your descendants from the east, and gather you from the west. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6I will say to the north, 'Give them up!' and to the south, 'Do not hold them back!' Bring my sons from far away, and my daughters from the ends of the earth-- |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7everyone who bears my name and is created for my glory. I have formed them; indeed, I have made them." |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Bring out a people who are blind, yet have eyes, and are deaf, yet have ears. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9All the nations are gathered together, and the peoples are assembled. Who among them can declare this, and tell us the former things? Let them present their witnesses to vindicate themselves, so that people may hear and say, "It is true." |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"You are my witnesses"--this is the LORD's declaration--"and my servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. No god was formed before me, and there will be none after me. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11I--I am the LORD. Besides me, there is no Savior. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12I alone declared, saved, and proclaimed--and not some foreign god among you. So you are my witnesses"--this is the LORD's declaration--"and I am God. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Also, from today on I am he alone, and none can rescue from my power. I act, and who can reverse it?" |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14This is what the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: Because of you, I will send an army to Babylon and bring all of them as fugitives, even the Chaldeans in the ships in which they rejoice. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15I am the LORD, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16This is what the LORD says--who makes a way in the sea, and a path through raging water, |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17who brings out the chariot and horse, the army and the mighty one together (they lie down, they do not rise again; they are extinguished, put out like a wick)-- |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18"Do not remember the past events, pay no attention to things of old. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Look, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness, rivers in the desert. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Wild animals--jackals and ostriches--will honor me, because I provide water in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my chosen people. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21The people I formed for myself will declare my praise. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22"But, Jacob, you have not called on me, because, Israel, you have become weary of me. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23You 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 incense. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24You have not bought me aromatic cane with silver, or satisfied me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened me with your sins; you have wearied me with your iniquities. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25"I--I sweep away your transgressions for my own sake and remember your sins no more. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Remind me. Let's argue the case together. Recount the facts, so that you may be vindicated. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Your first father sinned, and your mediators have rebelled against me. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28So I defiled the officers of the sanctuary, and set Jacob apart for destruction and Israel for scorn. |
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