Israel’s Only Savior 1 CPDV And now thus says the Lord who created you, O Jacob, and who formed you, O Israel: Do not be afraid. For I have redeemed you, and I have called you by your name. You are mine. BSB BSB: But now, this is what the LORD says—He who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine!
2 CPDV When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and the rivers will not cover you. When you walk through fire, you will not be burned, and the flames will not scorch you. BSB BSB: When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you go through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched; the flames will not set you ablaze.
3 CPDV For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I have presented Egypt as your atonement, Ethiopia and Seba on your behalf. BSB BSB: For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I give Egypt for your ransom, Cush and Seba in your place.
4 CPDV Since then, you have become honorable in my eyes, and glorious. I have loved you, and I will present men on behalf of you, and people on behalf of your life. BSB BSB: Because you are precious and honored in My sight, and because I love you, I will give men in exchange for you and nations in place of your life.
5 CPDV Fear not, for I am with you. I will lead your offspring from the East, and I will gather you from the West. BSB BSB: Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east and gather you from the west.
6 CPDV I will say to the North, “Release him,” and to the South, “Do not turn him away.” Bring my sons from far away, and my daughters from the ends of the earth. BSB BSB: I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’ and to the south, ‘Do not hold them back!’ Bring My sons from afar, and My daughters from the ends of the earth—
7 CPDV And each one who calls upon my name, I have created for my glory. I have formed him, and I have made him. BSB BSB: everyone called by My name and created for My glory, whom I have indeed formed and made.”
8 CPDV Lead forth the people who are blind and have eyes, who are deaf and have ears. BSB BSB: Bring out a people who have eyes but are blind, and who have ears but are deaf.
9 CPDV All the nations have been assembled together, and the tribes have been collected. Who among you will announce this, and who will cause us to listen to the things that are first? Let them present their witnesses. Let them act justly, and listen, and say: “It is true.” BSB BSB: All the nations gather together and the peoples assemble. Who among them can declare this, and proclaim to us the former things? Let them present their witnesses to vindicate them, so that others may hear and say, “It is true.”
10 CPDV You are my witnesses, says the Lord, and you are my servant, whom I have chosen, so that you may know, and may believe in me, and so that you may understand that I am the same. Before me, there was no god formed, and after me there will be none. BSB BSB: “You are My witnesses,” declares the LORD, “and My servant whom I have chosen, so that you may consider and believe Me and understand that I am He. Before Me no god was formed, and after Me none will come. 11 CPDV I am. I am the Lord. And there is no savior apart from me. BSB BSB: I, yes I, am the LORD, and there is no Savior but Me.
12 CPDV I have announced, and I have saved. I have caused it to be heard. And there was no stranger among you. You are my witnesses, says the Lord, and I am God. BSB BSB: I alone decreed and saved and proclaimed—I, and not some foreign god among you. So you are My witnesses,” declares the LORD, “that I am God.
13 CPDV And from the beginning, I am the same. And there is no one who can rescue from my hand. I act, and who can turn it aside? BSB BSB: Even from eternity I am He, and none can deliver out of My hand. When I act, who can reverse it?”
A Way in the Wilderness 14 CPDV Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For your sake, I sent to Babylon, and tore down all their bars, with the Chaldeans who glory in their ships. BSB BSB: Thus says the LORD your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “For your sake, I will send to Babylon and bring them all as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships in which they rejoice.
15 CPDV I am the Lord, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King. BSB BSB: I am the LORD, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, and your King.”
16 CPDV Thus says the Lord, who gave you a way through the sea and a path through the torrent of waters, BSB BSB: Thus says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea and a path through the surging waters,
17 CPDV who led out the chariot and the horse, the column of robust troops. They went to sleep together, and they will not arise. They have been crushed like flax, and they have been extinguished. BSB BSB: who brings out the chariots and horses, the armies and warriors together, to lie down, never to rise again; to be extinguished, snuffed out like a wick:
18 CPDV You need not call to mind the past, nor consider the things of antiquity. BSB BSB: “Do not call to mind the former things; pay no attention to the things of old.
19 CPDV Behold, I am accomplishing new things. And presently, they will spring forth. With certainty, you will know them. I will make a way in the desert, and rivers in an impassible place. BSB BSB: Behold, 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 and streams in the desert.
20 CPDV The wild beasts of the field will glorify me, with the serpents and the ostriches. For I have brought waters to the desert, rivers to inaccessible places, in order to give drink to my people, to my elect. BSB BSB: The beasts of the field will honor Me, the jackals and the ostriches, because I provide water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My chosen people.
21 CPDV This is the people whom I have formed for myself. They will speak my praise. BSB BSB: The people I formed for Myself will declare My praise.
Israel’s Unfaithfulness (Judges 2:10–15; Jeremiah 2:23–37)
22 CPDV But you have not called upon me, O Jacob, nor have you struggled for me, O Israel. BSB BSB: But you have not called on Me, O Jacob, because you have grown weary of Me, O Israel.
23 CPDV You have not offered me the ram of your holocaust, and you have not glorified me with your victims. I have not burdened you with oblations, nor have I wearied you with incense. BSB BSB: You have not brought Me sheep for burnt offerings, nor honored Me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings, nor wearied you with frankincense.
24 CPDV You have bought me no sweet cane with money, and you have not inebriated me with the fat of your victims. Yet truly, you have burdened me with your sins; you have wearied me with your iniquities. BSB BSB: You have not bought Me sweet cane with your silver, nor satisfied Me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened Me with your sins; you have wearied Me with your iniquities.
25 CPDV I am. I am the very One who wipes away your iniquities for my own sake. And I will not remember your sins. BSB BSB: I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.
26 CPDV Call me to mind, and let us go to judgment together. If you have anything to justify yourself, explain it. BSB BSB: Remind Me, let us argue the matter together. State your case, so that you may be vindicated.
27 CPDV Your first father sinned, and your interpreters have betrayed me. BSB BSB: Your first father sinned, and your spokesmen rebelled against Me.
28 CPDV And so, I have defiled the holy leaders. I have handed over Jacob to slaughter, and Israel to calumny. BSB BSB: So I will disgrace the princes of your sanctuary, and I will devote Jacob to destruction and Israel to reproach.”
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