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12 I’ve revealed and saved and proclaimed,
    when there was no foreign god among you —
        and you are my witnesses,” declares the Lord.
13 “I am God; also[a] from ancient days[b] I am the one.
    And there is no one who can deliver out of my hand;
        when I act, who can reverse it?”

14 This is what the Lord says,
    your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:
“For your sake I will send to Babylon,[c]
    and bring them all down as fugitives.
Now as for the Babylonians,
    their ringing cry will become lamentation.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 43:13 So 1QIsaa; MT reads God—Yes,; cf. LXX
  2. Isaiah 43:13 Or from this day on,
  3. Isaiah 43:14 So 1QIsaa; 4QIsab MT each spell this line differently

12 I have revealed and saved and proclaimed—
    I, and not some foreign god(A) among you.
You are my witnesses,(B)” declares the Lord, “that I am God.
13     Yes, and from ancient days(C) I am he.(D)
No one can deliver out of my hand.
    When I act, who can reverse it?”(E)

God’s Mercy and Israel’s Unfaithfulness

14 This is what the Lord says—
    your Redeemer,(F) the Holy One(G) of Israel:
“For your sake I will send to Babylon
    and bring down as fugitives(H) all the Babylonians,[a](I)
    in the ships in which they took pride.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 43:14 Or Chaldeans