1But now thus says Yehovah 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. 2When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you: when you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, nor shall the flame kindle upon you. 3For I am Yehovah your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I have given Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place. 4Since you have been precious in my sight, and honorable, and I have loved you; therefore I will give men in your place, and peoples instead of your life. 5Do not fear; for I am with you: I will bring your seed from the east, and gather you from the west; 6I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Do not hold back; bring my sons from afar, and my daughters from the end of the earth; 7everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made. 8Bring forth the blind people who have eyes, and the deaf who have ears. 9Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the peoples be assembled: who among them can declare this, and show us former things? let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified; or let them hear, and say, It is truth. 10You are my witnesses, says Yehovah, and my servant whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, nor shall there be after me. 11I, even I, am Yehovah; and besides me there is no savior. 12I have declared, and I have saved, and I have shown; and there was no strange god among you: therefore you are my witnesses, says Yehovah, and I am God. 13Yes, since the day was I am he; and there is none who can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who can hinder it? 14Thus says Yehovah, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring down all of them as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships of their rejoicing. 15I am Yehovah, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King. 16Thus says Yehovah, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters; 17who brings forth the chariot and horse, the army and the mighty man (they lie down together, they shall not rise; they are extinct, they are quenched as a wick): 18Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old. 19Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. 20The beasts of the field shall honor me, the jackals and the ostriches; because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen, 21the people which I formed for myself, that they might set forth my praise. 22Yet you have not called upon me, O Jacob; but you have been weary of me, O Israel. 23You have not brought me of your sheep for burnt-offerings; nor have you honored me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings, nor wearied you with frankincense. 24You have bought me no sweet cane with money, nor 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 I will not remember your sins. 26Put me in remembrance; let us plead together: set forth your cause, that you may be justified. 27Your first father sinned, and your teachers have transgressed against me. 28Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; and I will make Jacob a curse, and Israel a reviling.