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12 It is I who declared, who saved,
    who announced, not some strange god among you;
You are my witnesses—oracle of the Lord.
    I am God,
13     yes, from eternity I am he;
There is none who can deliver from my hand:
    I act and who can cancel it?(A)

14 Thus says the Lord, your redeemer,[a]
    the Holy One of Israel:
For your sake I send to Babylon;
    I will bring down all her defenses,
    and the Chaldeans shall cry out in lamentation.

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Footnotes

  1. 43:14–17 The destruction of Babylon is described in language that recalls the drowning of the Egyptian army in the Red Sea (Ex 14–15).

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