Isaiah 43:14-21

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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 lamentation.^[a](A)
15 I am the Lord, your Holy One,
    the Creator of Israel, your King.
¹⁶ Thus says the Lord,
    who makes a way in the sea,
    a path in the mighty waters,^(B)
17 who brings out chariot and horse,
    army and warrior;
they lie down; they cannot rise;
    they are extinguished, quenched like a wick:^(C)
18 Do not remember the former things
    or consider the things of old.^(D)
19 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.^(E)
20 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,^(F)
21     the people whom I formed for myself
so that they might declare my praise.^(G)