Isaiah 43:3-15

3For I am the Lord your God, The Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I have given Egypt [to the Babylonians] as your ransom, Cush (ancient Ethiopia) and Seba [its province] in exchange for you.

4Because you are precious in My sight, You are honored and I love you, I will give other men in return for you and other peoples in exchange for your life.

5Do not fear, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east [where they are scattered], And gather you from the west.

6I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’ And to the south, ‘Do not hold them back.’ Bring My sons from far way And My daughters from the ends of the earth,

7Everyone who is called by My Name, Whom I have created for My glory, Whom I have formed, even whom I have made.”

8Bring out the people who are blind, even though they have eyes, And the deaf, even though they have ears.

9All the nations have gathered together So that the peoples may be assembled. Who among them (the idolaters) can predict this [that Judah would return from captivity] And proclaim to us the former events? Let them provide their witnesses so that they may be justified, Or let them hear and say [in acknowledgement], “It is the truth.”

10“You are My witnesses,” declares the Lord, “And My servant whom I have chosen, That you may know and believe Me And understand that I am He. Before Me there was no God formed, And there will be none after Me.

11I, [only] I, am the Lord, And there is no Savior besides Me.

12I have declared [the future] and saved [the nation] and proclaimed [that I am God], And there was no strange (alien) god among you; Therefore you are My witnesses [among the pagans],” declares the Lord, “That I am God.

13Even from eternity I am He, And there is no one who can rescue from My hand; I act, and who can revoke or reverse it?”

14This is what the Lord your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says, “For your sake I have sent [one] to Babylon, And I will bring down all of them as fugitives, Even the Chaldeans [who reign in Babylon], into the ships over which they rejoiced.

15I am the Lord, your Holy One, The Creator of Israel, your King.”