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CHAPTER 43
AND now thus said the Lord that created you, O Jacob, and formed you, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed you, and called you by your name: you are mine.
2 When you shall pass through the waters, I will be with you, and the rivers shall not cover you: when you shall walk in the fire, you shall not be burnt, and the flames shall not burn in you:
3 For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Saviour: I have given Egypt for your atonement, Ethiopia and Saba for you.
4 Since you became honourable in my eyes, you are glorious: I have loved you, and I will give men for you, and people for your life.
5 Fear not, for I am with you: I will. bring your seed from the east, and gather you from the west.
6 I 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.
7 And every one that calls upon my name, I have created him for my glory, I have formed him, and made him.
8 Bring forth the people that are blind, and have eyes: that are deaf, and have ears.
9 All the nations are assembled together, and the tribes are gathered: who among you can declare this, and shall make us hear the former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, let them be justified, and hear, and say: It is truth.
10 You are my witnesses, said the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen: that you may know, and believe me, and understand that I myself am. Before me there was no God formed, and after me there shall be none.
11 I am, I am the Lord: and there is no saviour besides me.
12 I have declared, and have saved. I have made it heard, and there was no strange one among you. You are my witnesses, said the Lord, and I am God.
13 And from the beginning I am the same, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall turn it away?
14 Thus said the Lord your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For your sake I sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their bars, and the Chaldeans glorying in their ships.
15 I am the Lord your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.
16 Thus said the Lord, who made a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters.
17 Who brought forth the chariot and the horse, the army and the strong: they lay down to sleep together, and they shall not rise again: they are broken as flax, and are extinct.
18 Remember not former things, and look not on things of old.
19 Behold I do new things, and now they shall spring forth, verily you shall know them: I will make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
20 The beast of the field shall glorify me, the dragons and the ostriches: because I have given waters in the wilderness, rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, to my chosen.
21 This people have I formed for my- self, they shall shew forth my praise.
22 But you have not called upon me, O Jacob, neither have you laboured about me, O Israel.
23 You have not offered me the ram of your holocaust, nor have you glorified me with your victims: I have not caused you to serve with oblations, nor wearied you with incense.
24 You have bought me no sweet cane with money, neither have you filled me with the fat of your victims. But you have made me to serve with your sins, you have wearied me with your iniquities.
25 I am, I am he that blot out your iniquities for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.
26 Put me in remembrance, and let us plead together: tell if you have any thing to justify yourself.
27 your brat father sinned, and your teachers have transgressed against me.
28 And I have profaned the holy princes, I have given Jacob to slaughter, and Israel to reproach.