5. Fear not, for I am with you;from the east I will bring back your offspring,from the west I will gather you.
6. I will say to the north: Give them up!and to the south: Do not hold them!Bring back my sons from afar,and my daughters from the ends of the earth:
7. All who are called by my nameI created for my glory;I formed them, made them.
8. Lead out the people, blind though they have eyes,deaf though they have ears.
9. Let all the nations gather together,let the peoples assemble!Who among them could have declared this,or announced to us the earlier things?Let them produce witnesses to prove themselves right,that one may hear and say, “It is true!”
10. You are my witnesses—oracle of the Lord—my servant whom I have chosenTo know and believe in meand understand that I am he.Before me no god was formed,and after me there shall be none.
11. I, I am the Lord;there is no savior but me.
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,
21. The people whom I formed for myself,that they might recount my praise.
22. Yet you did not call upon me, Jacob,for you grew weary of me, Israel.