# Isaiah 43 [[Isaiah 42|←]] • [[Isaiah 44|→]] --- ### 1 But now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called by thy name; thou mine. ### 2 When thou passest through the waters, I with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. ### 3 For I the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee. ### 4 Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life. ### 5 Fear not: for I with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west; ### 6 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 ends of the earth; ### 7 every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him. ### 8 Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears. ### 9 Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, truth. ### 10 Ye my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. ### 11 I, I, the Lord; and beside me no saviour. ### 12 I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when no strange among you: therefore ye my witnesses, saith the Lord, that I God. ### 13 Yea, before the day I he; and none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it? ### 14 Thus saith the Lord, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry in the ships. ### 15 I the Lord, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King. ### 16 Thus saith the Lord, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters; ### 17 Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow. ### 18 Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. ### 19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, rivers in the desert. ### 20 The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen. ### 21 This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise. ### 22 But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel. ### 23 Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense. ### 24 Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities. ### 25 I, I, he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins. ### 26 Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified. ### 27 Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me. ### 28 Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.