Isaiah 43:8-18

8Lead out those who have eyes but are blind, who have ears but are deaf.

9All the nations gather together and the peoples assemble. Which of their gods foretold this and proclaimed to us the former things? Let them bring in their witnesses to prove they were right, so that others may hear and say, “It is true.”

10“You are my witnesses,” declares the LORD, “and my servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor will there be one after me.

11I, even I, am the LORD, and apart from me there is no savior.

12I have revealed and saved and proclaimed— I, and not some foreign god among you. You are my witnesses,” declares the LORD, “that I am God.

13Yes, and from ancient days I am he. No one can deliver out of my hand. When I act, who can reverse it?”

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.