Isaiah 43:14-21

God’s Mercy and Israel’s Unfaithfulness

See, I am doing a new thing!
Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness
and streams in the wasteland.
~ Isaiah 43:19

14. This is what the Lord says—
    your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:
    “For your sake I will send to Babylon
    and bring down as fugitives all the Babylonians,
    in the ships in which they took pride.
15. I am the Lord, your Holy One,
    Israel’s Creator, your King.”
    
16. This is what the Lord says—
    he who made a way through the sea,
    a path through the mighty waters,
17. who drew out the chariots and horses,
    the army and reinforcements together,
    and they lay there, never to rise again,
    extinguished, snuffed out like a wick:
18. “Forget the former things;
    do not dwell on the past.
19. See, I am doing a new thing!
    Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
    I am making a way in the wilderness
    and streams in the wasteland.
20. The wild animals honor me,
    the jackals and the owls,
    because I provide water in the wilderness
    and streams in the wasteland,
    to give drink to my people, my chosen,
21. the people I formed for myself
    that they may proclaim my praise.