Isaiah 43 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Isaiah 43Restoration and Protection Promised

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15I am the Lord, your Holy One,

the Creator of Israel, your King.

16 Ex 14.16; Josh 3.13; Ps 77.19; Isa 51.10 Thus says the Lord,

who makes a way in the sea,

a path in the mighty waters,

17 Ex 14.4–9, 25 who brings out chariot and horse,

army and warrior;

they lie down; they cannot rise;

they are extinguished, quenched like a wick:

18 Jer 16.14 Do not remember the former things

or consider the things of old.

19 Ex 17.6; Num 20.11; Isa 35.6; 2 Cor 5.17; Rev 21.5 I am about to do a new thing;

now it springs forth; do you not perceive it?

I will make a way in the wilderness

and rivers in the desert.

20 Isa 48.21 The wild animals will honor me,

the jackals and the ostriches,

for I give water in the wilderness,

rivers in the desert,

to give drink to my chosen people,

21 v 1 ; Ps 102.18; Lk 1.74, 75the people whom I formed for myself

so that they might declare my praise.

22 Isa 30.9–11; Mal 1.13 Yet you did not call upon me, O Jacob;

but you have been weary of me, O Israel!

23 Am 5.25; Mal 1.6–8 You have not brought me your sheep for burnt offerings

or honored me with your sacrifices.

I have not burdened you with offerings

or wearied you with frankincense.

24 Ex 30.23; Isa 1.14; Mal 2.17 You have not bought me sweet cane with money

or satisfied me with the fat of your sacrifices.

Rather, you have burdened me with your sins;

you have wearied me with your iniquities.

25 Isa 44.23; Jer 31.34; Ezek 36.22 I alone am the one

who blots out your transgressions for my own sake,

and I will not remember your sins.

26 v 9 ; Isa 1.18Accuse me; let us go to trial;

set forth your case, so that you may be proved right.

27Your first ancestor sinned,

and your mediators rebelled against me.

28 Isa 47.6; Lam 2.2, 6; Zech 8.13 Therefore I profaned the princes of the sanctuary;

I delivered Jacob to utter destruction

and Israel to reviling.