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12 I declared and saved and proclaimed,
    when there was no strange god among you;
    and you are my witnesses,” says the Lord.
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 will send to Babylon
    and break down all the bars,
    and the shouting of the Chalde′ans will be turned to lamentations.[a]

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  1. Isaiah 43:14 Heb obscure

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