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Isaiah 43:18-25

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18“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.

19See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.

20The wild animals honor me, the jackals and the owls, because I provide water in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland, to give drink to my people, my chosen,

21the people I formed for myself that they may proclaim my praise.

22“Yet you have not called on me, Jacob, you have not wearied yourselves for Or Jacob; / surely you have grown weary of me, Israel.

23You have not brought me sheep for burnt offerings, nor honored me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with grain offerings nor wearied you with demands for incense.

24You have not bought any fragrant calamus for me, or lavished on me the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened me with your sins and wearied me with your offenses.

25“I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more.