Isaiah 43:14-21

God’s Mercy and Israel’s Unfaithfulness 14This is what the LORD says— your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “For your sake I will send to Babylon and bring down as fugitives all the Babylonians, Or Chaldeans in the ships in which they took pride.

15I am the LORD, your Holy One, Israel’s Creator, your King.”

16This is what the LORD says— he who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters,

17who drew out the chariots and horses, the army and reinforcements together, and they lay there, never to rise again, extinguished, snuffed out like a wick:

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.