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isaiah 43

1 - But now the LORD who created you, Jacob,and he who formed you, Israel says:"Don't be afraid, for I have redeemed you.I have called you by your name.You are mine.
2 - When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;and through the rivers, they will not overflow you.When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned,and flame will not scorch you.
3 - For I am the LORD your God,the Holy One of Israel,your Savior.I have given Egypt as your ransom,Ethiopia and Seba in your place.
4 - Since you have been precious and honored in my sight,and I have loved you;therefore I will give people in your place,and nations instead of your life.
5 - Don't be afraid; for I am with you.I will bring your offspring from the east,and gather you from the west.
6 - I will tell the north, 'Give them up!'and tell the south, 'Don't hold them back!Bring my sons from far,and my daughters from the ends of the earth-
7 - everyone who is called by my name,and whom I have created for my glory,whom I have formed,yes, whom I have made.'"
8 - Bring out the blind people who have eyes,and the deaf who have ears.
9 - Let 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, "That is true."
10 - "You are my witnesses," says The LORD,"With 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,neither will there be after me.
11 - I myself am The LORD;and besides me there is no savior.
12 - I have declared, I have saved, and I have shown;and there was no strange god among you.Therefore you are my witnesses",says The LORD, "and I am God.
13 - Yes, since the day was I am he;and there is no one who can deliver out of my hand.I will work, and who can hinder it?"
14 - The LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: "For your sake, I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring all of them down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships of their rejoicing.
15 - I am The LORD, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King."
16 - The LORD, who makes a way in the sea,and a path in the mighty waters says:
17 - who brings out the chariot and horse,the army and the mighty man(they lie down together, they shall not rise;they are extinct, they are quenched like a wick):
18 - "Don't remember the former things,and don't consider the things of old.
19 - Behold, I will do a new thing.It springs out now.Don't you know it?I will even make a way in the wilderness,and rivers in the desert.
20 - The animals of the field shall honor me,the jackals and the ostriches;because I give water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert,to give drink to my people, my chosen,
21 - the people which I formed for myself,that they might declare my praise.
22 - Yet you have not called on me, Jacob;but you have been weary of me, Israel.
23 - You have not brought me of your sheep for burnt offerings;neither have you honored me with your sacrifices.I have not burdened you with offerings,nor wearied you with frankincense.
24 - You 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.
25 - I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake;and I will not remember your sins.
26 - Put me in remembrance.Let us plead together.Declare your case,that you may be justified.
27 - Your first father sinned,and your teachers have transgressed against me.
28 - Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary;and I will make Jacob a curse,and Israel an insult."

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