12. It is I who declared, who saved,who announced, not some strange god among you;You are my witnesses—oracle of the Lord.I am God,
13. yes, from eternity I am he;There is none who can deliver from my hand:I act and who can cancel it?
14. Thus says the Lord, your redeemer,the Holy One of Israel:For your sake I send to Babylon;I will bring down all her defenses,and the Chaldeans shall cry out in lamentation.
15. I am the Lord, your Holy One,the creator of Israel, your King.
16. Thus says the Lord,who opens a way in the sea,a path in the mighty waters,
17. Who leads out chariots and horsemen,a powerful army,Till they lie prostrate together, never to rise,snuffed out, quenched like a wick.
18. Remember not the events of the past,the things of long ago consider not;
19. See, I am doing something new!Now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?In the wilderness I make a way,in the wasteland, rivers.
20. Wild beasts honor me,jackals and ostriches,For I put water in the wildernessand rivers in the wastelandfor my chosen people to drink,