Isaiah 43:3-15

3For I am Adonai your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I have given Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place.

4Since you are precious in My eyes, honored, because I love you, I will give a man in exchange for you, and other peoples for your life.

5Do not fear, for I am with you. I will bring your offspring from the east 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 and My daughters from the ends of the earth.

7Everyone who is called by My Name, whom I created for My glory. I formed him—yes, I made him!”

8Bring out the people who are blind, yet have eyes, who are deaf, yet have ears.

9All the nations are gathered together, and the peoples are assembled. Who among them can declare this, and proclaim to us former things? Let them present their witnesses so they may be justified, or let them hear and say, “It’s true.”

10“You are My witnesses” —it is a declaration of Adonai— “and My Servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and believe Me, and understand that I am He. Before Me no God was formed, and there will none after Me.

11“I, I am Adonai— and there is no savior beside Me.

12I alone declared, saved and proclaimed, and not some foreign god among you. So you are My witnesses” —it is a declaration of Adonai— “and I am God.

13From eternity, I am He. None can deliver from My hand. I act, and who can reverse it?”

14Thus says Adonai, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “For your sake I will send to Babylon and bring down the fleeing Chaldeans, all of them, in the ships in which they exult.

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