Isaiah 43

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
1 And now thus says the Lord who created you, O Jacob, and who formed you, O Israel: Do not be afraid. For I have redeemed you, and I have called you by your name. You are mine.	1 But now thus says the LORD, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: "Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.
2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and the rivers will not cover you. When you walk through fire, you will not be burned, and the flames will not scorch you.	2 When you pass through the waters I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.
3 For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Saviour. I have presented Egypt as your atonement, Ethiopia and Seba on your behalf.	3 For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I give Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in exchange for you.
4 Since then, you have become honorable in my eyes, and glorious. I have loved you, and I will present men on behalf of you, and people on behalf of your life.	4 Because you are precious in my eyes, and honored, and I love you, I give men in return for you, peoples in exchange for your life.
5 Fear not, for I am with you. I will lead your offspring from the East, and I will gather you from the West.	5 Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east, and from the west I will gather you;
6 I will say to the North, “Release him,” and to the South, “Do not turn him away.” Bring my sons from far away, and my daughters from the ends of the earth.	6 I will say to the north, Give up, and to the south, Do not withhold; bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the end of the earth,
7 And each one who calls upon my name, I have created for my glory. I have formed him, and I have made him.	7 every one who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made."
8 Lead forth the people who are blind and have eyes, who are deaf and have ears.	8 Bring forth the people who are blind, yet have eyes, who are deaf, yet have ears!
9 All the nations have been assembled together, and the tribes have been collected. Who among you will announce this, and who will cause us to listen to the things that are first? Let them present their witnesses. Let them act justly, and listen, and say: “It is true.”	9 Let all the nations gather together, and let the peoples assemble. Who among them can declare this, and show us the former things? Let them bring their witnesses to justify them, and let them hear and say, It is true.
10 You are my witnesses, says the Lord, and you are my servant, whom I have chosen, so that you may know, and may believe in me, and so that you may understand that I am the same. Before me, there was no god formed, and after me there will be none.	10 "You are my witnesses," says the LORD, "and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that I am He. Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me.
11 I am. I am the Lord. And there is no savior apart from me.	11 I, I am the LORD, and besides me there is no savior.
12 I have announced, and I have saved. I have caused it to be heard. And there was no stranger among you. You are my witnesses, says the Lord, and I am God.	12 I declared and saved and proclaimed, when there was no strange god among you; and you are my witnesses," says the LORD.
13 And from the beginning, I am the same. And there is no one who can rescue from my hand. I act, and who can turn it aside?	13 "I am God, and also henceforth I am He; there is none who can deliver from my hand; I work and who can hinder it?"
14 Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For your sake, I sent to Babylon, and tore down all their bars, with the Chaldeans who glory in their ships.	14 Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: "For your sake I will send to Babylon and break down all the bars, and the shouting of the Chaldeans will be turned to lamentations.
15 I am the Lord, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.	15 I am the LORD, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King."
16 Thus says the Lord, who gave you a way through the sea and a path through the torrent of waters,	16 Thus says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters,
17 who led out the chariot and the horse, the column of robust troops. They went to sleep together, and they will not arise. They have been crushed like flax, and they have been extinguished.	17 who brings forth chariot and horse, army and warrior; they lie down, they cannot rise, they are extinguished, quenched like a wick:
18 You need not call to mind the past, nor consider the things of antiquity.	18 "Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old.
19 Behold, I am accomplishing new things. And presently, they will spring forth. With certainty, you will know them. I will make a way in the desert, and rivers in an impassible place.	19 Behold, I am doing 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 The wild beasts of the field will glorify me, with the serpents and the ostriches. For I have brought waters to the desert, rivers to inaccessible places, in order to give drink to my people, to my elect.	20 The wild beasts 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 This is the people whom I have formed for myself. They will speak my praise.	21 the people whom I formed for myself that they might declare my praise.
22 But you have not called upon me, O Jacob, nor have you struggled for me, O Israel.	22 "Yet you did not call upon me, O Jacob; but you have been weary of me, O Israel!
23 You have not offered me the ram of your holocaust, and you have not glorified me with your victims. I have not burdened you with oblations, nor have I wearied you with incense.	23 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 You have bought me no sweet cane with money, and you have not inebriated me with the fat of your victims. Yet truly, you have burdened me with your sins; you have wearied me with your iniquities.	24 You have not bought me sweet cane with money, or satisfied me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened me with your sins, you have wearied me with your iniquities.
25 I am. I am the very One who wipes away your iniquities for my own sake. And I will not remember your sins.	25 "I, I am He who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.
26 Call me to mind, and let us go to judgment together. If you have anything to justify yourself, explain it.	26 Put me in remembrance, let us argue together; set forth your case, that you may be proved right.
27 Your first father sinned, and your interpreters have betrayed me.	27 Your first father sinned, and your mediators transgressed against me.
28 And so, I have defiled the holy leaders. I have handed over Jacob to slaughter, and Israel to calumny.	28 Therefore I profaned the princes of the sanctuary, I delivered Jacob to utter destruction and Israel to reviling.