Orthodox Jewish Bible

Yeshayah 43:6-23 Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB)

6. I will say to the tzafon (north), Give them up; and to the teiman (south), hold not back; bring My banim from afar, and My banot from the ketzeh ha'aretz;

7. Even every one that is called by My Shem, whom I have created for My kavod, whom I have formed and I have made.

8. Bring forth the Am Ivver that have eyes, and the chereshim that have oznayim.

9. Let kol HaGoyim be gathered together, and let the peoples be assembled; who among them can declare this, and show us rishonot (former things)? Let them bring forth their edim (witnesses), that they may be vindicated: or let them hear, and say, It is emes.

10. Ye are My edim (witnesses), saith Hashem. And Avdi whom I have chosen; so that ye may know and believe Me, and understand that Ani Hu (I am He); before Me there was no El formed, neither shall there be after Me.

11. I, even I, am Hashem; and apart from Me there is no Moshi'a.

12. I have declared, and have saved, and I have proclaimed, when there was no zar (foreign) [g-d] among you; therefore you [plural] are My edim (witnesses), saith Hashem, that I am El.

13. Yes, before the yom was, Ani Hu (I am He); and there is none that can deliver out of My Yad; I work, and who shall reverse it?

14. Thus saith Hashem, your Go'el, the Kadosh Yisroel; For your sake [see Isaiah 45:4] I have sent to Babylon, and I shall bring down the fugitives, all of them, even the Kasdim (Chaldeans), whose shout of joy is in the ships.

15. I am Hashem, your Kadosh, the Boreh Yisroel, your Melech.

16. Thus saith Hashem, which maketh a derech in the yam, and a path in the mayim azzim (mighty waters);

17. Which drew out the merkavah and sus, the army and warrior; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise; they are extinct, they are quenched like a wick.

18. Remember ye not the rishonot (former things) neither consider kadmoniyyot (the things of old).

19. Hineni, I am doing a chadashah (new thing); now titzmach (it shall spring forth; Tzemach); shall ye not perceive it? I will even make a derech in the midbar, and neharot in the desert.

20. The animal of the wild shall honor Me, the jackals and the ostriches; because I give mayim in the midbar, and neharot in the desert, to give drink to My People, My Bachir.

21. This people have I formed for Myself; they shall show forth My tehillah (praise).

22. But thou hast not called upon Me, O Ya'akov; but thou hast been weary of Me, O Yisroel.

23. Thou hast not brought Me the seh (lamb) of thy olot; neither hast thou honored Me with thy zevakhim. I have not caused thee to serve with a minchah, nor wearied thee with levonah (incense, frankincense).