9. All the nations shall be assembled, and the peoples be gathered. Who among them declares this, and show us former events? Let them give their witnesses, to be declared right; or let them hear and say, “It is truth.”
10. “You are My witnesses,” declares יהוה, “And My servant whom I have chosen, so that you know and believe Me, and understand that I am He. Before Me there was no Ěl formed, nor after Me there is none.
11. “I, I am יהוה, and besides Me there is no saviour.
12. “I, I have declared and saved, and made known, and there was no foreign mighty one among you. And you are My witnesses,” declares יהוה, “that I am Ěl.
13. “Even from the day I am He, and no one delivers out of My hand. I work, and who turns it back?”
14. Thus said יהוה, your Redeemer, the Set-apart One of Yisra’ĕl, “For your sake I shall send to Baḇel, and bring them all down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, who rejoice in their ships.
15. “I am יהוה, your Set-apart One, Creator of Yisra’ĕl, your Sovereign.”
16. Thus said יהוה, who makes a way in the sea and a path through the mighty waters,
17. who brings forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power (they lie down together, they do not rise, they have been extinguished, they have been quenched like a wick):
18. “Do not remember the former events, nor consider the events of old.
19. “See, I am doing what is new, let it now spring forth. Do you not know it? I am even making a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
20. “The beast of the field esteems Me, the jackals and the ostriches, because I have given waters in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My people, My chosen,
21. this people I have formed for Myself, let them relate My praise.
22. “But you have not called on Me, O Ya‛aqoḇ, for you have been weary of Me, O Yisra’ĕl.
23. “You have not brought Me the sheep for your burnt offerings, nor have you esteemed Me with your slaughterings. I have not caused you to serve with grain offerings, nor wearied you with incense.
24. “You have not bought Me sweet cane with silver, nor have you satisfied Me with the fat of your slaughterings. You have only burdened Me with your sins, you have wearied Me with your crookednesses.
25. “I, I am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake, and remember your sins no more.