Isa 43
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But now thus says YHWH that created you, O Jacob, and he who formed you, O Israel:
Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name, you are mine.
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When 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, neither
shall the flame kindle upon you.
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For I am YHWH your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Saviour; I have given Egypt as
your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your stead.
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Since you have been precious in my sight, [and] honorable, and I have loved you; therefore
will I give men in your stead, and peoples instead of your life.
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Fear not; for I am with you: I will bring your seed from the east, and gather you
from the west;
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I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back; bring my sons from
far, and my daughters from the end of the earth;
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every one that is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I
have formed, yea, whom I have made.
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Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.
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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, It is truth.
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You are my witnesses, says YHWH, 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, neither
shall there be after me.
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I, even I, am YHWH; and besides me there is no saviour.
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I have declared, and I have saved, and I have showed; and there was no strange [god]
among you: therefore you are my witnesses, says YHWH, and I am God.
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Yea, since the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand:
I will work, and who can hinder it?
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Thus says YHWH, 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.
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I am YHWH, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.
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Thus says YHWH, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;
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who 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):
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Remember you not the former things, neither consider the things of old.
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Behold, I will do a new thing; now shall it spring forth; shall you not know it? I
will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
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The 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,
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the people which I formed for myself, that they might set forth my praise.
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Yet you have not called upon me, O Jacob; but you have been weary of me, O Israel.
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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.
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You have bought me no sweet cane with money, neither 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.
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I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for mine own sake; and I will not
remember your sins.
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Put me in remembrance; let us plead together: set you forth [your cause], that you
may be justified.
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Your first father sinned, and your teachers have transgressed against me.
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Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; and I will make Jacob a curse,
and Israel a reviling.