7. even everyone who is called by My name,for I have created him for My glory;I have formed him, and I have made him.”
8. Bring forth the blind people who have eyes,and the deaf who have ears.
9. Let all the nations be gathered together,and let the people be assembled.Who among them can declare this,and show us former things?Let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified;or let them hear and say, “It is true.”
10. You are My witnesses, says the Lord,and My servant whom I have chosenthat you may know and believe Me,and understand that I am He.Before Me there was no God formed,nor shall there be after Me.
11. I, even I, am the Lord,and besides Me there is no savior.
12. I have declared, and have saved, and I have shown,when there was no strange god among you;therefore, you are My witnesses, says the Lord, that I am God.
13. Indeed, from eternity I am He;there is no one who can deliver out of My hand;I act, and who can reverse it?
14. Thus says the Lord,your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:For your sake I have sent to Babylon,and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans,into the ships in which they rejoice.
15. I am the Lord, your Holy One,the Creator of Israel, your King.
16. Thus says the Lord,who makes a way in the seaand a path in the mighty waters,
17. who brings forth the chariot and horse,the army and the mighty men(they shall lie down together, they shall not rise;they are extinguished, they are quenched like a wick):
18. Do not remember the former thingsnor consider the things of old.
19. See, I will do a new thing,now it shall spring forth; shall you not be aware of it?I will even make a way in the wilderness,and rivers in the desert.
20. The beast of the field shall honor Me,the jackals and the owls,because I give waters in the wilderness,and rivers in the desert,to give drink to My people, My chosen ones.
21. This people I have formed for Myself;they shall declare My praise.
22. But you have not called upon Me, O Jacob;but you have been weary of Me, O Israel.
23. You have not brought Me the sheep for your burnt offerings,nor have you honored Me with your sacrifices.I have not burdened you with offerings,nor wearied you with incense.
24. You have bought Me no sweet cane with money,nor have you filled Me with the fat of your sacrifices;but you have made Me burdened with your sins;you have wearied Me with your iniquities.
25. I, even I, am He who blots outyour transgressions for My own sake,and will not remember your sins.