3. For 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.
4. Since 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.
5. Do not fear, for I am with you. I will bring your offspring from the east and gather you from the west.
6. I 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.
7. Everyone who is called by My Name, whom I created for My glory. I formed him—yes, I made him!”
8. Bring out the people who are blind, yet have eyes, who are deaf, yet have ears.
9. All 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.
12. I 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.
13. From eternity, I am He. None can deliver from My hand. I act, and who can reverse it?”