Isaiah 43

¹But now, says the Lord your Maker, O Jacob, and your life-giver, O Israel: have no fear, for I have taken up your cause; naming you by your name, I have made you mine.

²When you go through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not go over you: when you go through the fire, you will not be burned; and the flame will have no power over you.

³For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your saviour; I have given Egypt as a price for you, Ethiopia and Seba for you.

⁴Because of your value in my eyes, you have been honoured, and loved by me; so I will give men for you, and peoples for your life.

⁵Have no fear, for I am with you: I will take your seed from the east, and get you together from the west;

⁶I will say to the north, Give them up; and to the south, Do not keep them back; send back my sons from far, and my daughters from the end of the earth;

⁷Every one who is named by my name, and whom I have made for my glory, who has been formed and designed by me.

⁸Send out the blind people who have eyes, and those who have ears, but they are shut.

⁹Let all the nations come together, and let the peoples be present: who among them is able to make this clear, and give us word of earlier things? let their witnesses come forward, so that they may be seen to be true, and that they may give ear, and say, It is true.

¹⁰You are my witnesses, says the Lord, and my servant whom I have taken for myself: so that you may see and have faith in me, and that it may be clear to you that I am he; before me there was no God formed, and there will not be after me.