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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Isaiah 43 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/isaiah/43.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" 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href="../isaiah/42.htm" title="Isaiah 42">◄</a> Isaiah 43 <a href="../isaiah/44.htm" title="Isaiah 44">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/isaiah/43.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Israel’s Only Savior</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/43-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">But now thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">he who created you, O Jacob,</span><br /><span class="indent">he who formed you, O Israel:</span><br /><span class="ln-group">“Fear not, for I have redeemed you;</span><br /><span class="indent">I have called you by name, you are mine.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/43-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;</span><br /><span class="indent">and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">when you walk through fire you shall not be burned,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the flame shall not consume you.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/43-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For I am the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God,</span><br /><span class="indent">the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">I give Egypt as your ransom,</span><br /><span class="indent">Cush and Seba in exchange for you.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/43-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Because you are precious in my eyes,</span><br /><span class="indent">and honored, and I love you,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">I give men in return for you,</span><br /><span class="indent">peoples in exchange for your life.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/43-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Fear not, for I am with you;</span><br /><span class="indent">I will bring your offspring from the east,</span><br /><span class="indent">and from the west I will gather you.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/43-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I will say to the north, Give up,</span><br /><span class="indent">and to the south, Do not withhold;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">bring my sons from afar</span><br /><span class="indent">and my daughters from the end of the earth,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/43-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">everyone who is called by my name,</span><br /><span class="indent">whom I created for my glory,</span><br /><span class="indent">whom I formed and made.”</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/43-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Bring out the people who are blind, yet have eyes,</span><br /><span class="indent">who are deaf, yet have ears!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/43-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">All the nations gather together,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the peoples assemble.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Who among them can declare this,</span><br /><span class="indent">and show us the former things?</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Let them bring their witnesses to prove them right,</span><br /><span class="indent">and let them hear and say, It is true.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/43-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“You are my witnesses,” declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="indent">“and my servant whom I have chosen,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">that you may know and believe me</span><br /><span class="indent">and understand that I am he.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Before me no god was formed,</span><br /><span class="indent">nor shall there be any after me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/43-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I, I am the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="indent">and besides me there is no savior.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/43-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I declared and saved and proclaimed,</span><br /><span class="indent">when there was no strange god among you;</span><br /><span class="indent">and you are my witnesses,” declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, “and I am God.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/43-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Also henceforth I am he;</span><br /><span class="indent">there is none who can deliver from my hand;</span><br /><span class="indent">I work, and who can turn it back?”</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/43-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="indent">your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:</span><br /><span class="ln-group">“For your sake I send to Babylon</span><br /><span class="indent">and bring them all down as fugitives,</span><br /><span class="indent">even the Chaldeans, in the ships in which they rejoice.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/43-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I am the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, your Holy One,</span><br /><span class="indent">the Creator of Israel, your King.”</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/43-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="indent">who makes a way in the sea,</span><br /><span class="indent">a path in the mighty waters,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/43-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">who brings forth chariot and horse,</span><br /><span class="indent">army and warrior;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">they lie down, they cannot rise,</span><br /><span class="indent">they are extinguished, quenched like a wick:</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/43-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Remember not the former things,</span><br /><span class="indent">nor consider the things of old.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/43-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Behold, I am doing a new thing;</span><br /><span class="indent">now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?</span><br /><span class="ln-group">I will make a way in the wilderness</span><br /><span class="indent">and rivers in the desert.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/43-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The wild beasts will honor me,</span><br /><span class="indent">the jackals and the ostriches,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">for I give water in the wilderness,</span><br /><span class="indent">rivers in the desert,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">to give drink to my chosen people,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/43-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="indent">the people whom I formed for myself</span><br /><span class="ln-group">that they might declare my praise.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/43-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Yet you did not call upon me, O Jacob;</span><br /><span class="indent">but you have been weary of me, O Israel!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/43-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You have not brought me your sheep for burnt offerings,</span><br /><span class="indent">or honored me with your sacrifices.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">I have not burdened you with offerings,</span><br /><span class="indent">or wearied you with frankincense.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/43-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You have not bought me sweet cane with money,</span><br /><span class="indent">or satisfied me with the fat of your sacrifices.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">But you have burdened me with your sins;</span><br /><span class="indent">you have wearied me with your iniquities.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/43-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“I, I am he</span><br /><span class="indent">who blots out your transgressions for my own sake,</span><br /><span class="indent">and I will not remember your sins.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/43-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Put me in remembrance; let us argue together;</span><br /><span class="indent">set forth your case, that you may be proved right.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/43-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Your first father sinned,</span><br /><span class="indent">and your mediators transgressed against me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/43-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary,</span><br /><span class="indent">and deliver Jacob to utter destruction</span><br /><span class="indent">and Israel to reviling.</span></p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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