Isaiah 43:14-21

Israel's Only Savior

14 Thus says the Lord,
your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:
e "For your sake I send to Babylon
and f bring them all down as fugitives,
g even the Chaldeans, in 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,
h who makes a way in the sea,
a path in the mighty waters,
 17 who i brings forth chariot and horse,
army and warrior;
they lie down, they cannot rise,
j they are extinguished, k quenched like a wick:
 18 l "Remember not the former things,
nor consider the things of old.
 19 m Behold, I am doing a new thing;
now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?
n I will make a way in the wilderness
o and rivers in the desert.
 20 The wild beasts will honor me,
p the jackals and the ostriches,
q for I give water in the wilderness,
rivers in the desert,
to give drink to my chosen people,
 21 the people whom I formed for myself
r that they might declare my praise.

  1. Cross References
    Isaiah 43:4
    Because you are precious in my eyes, and honored, and I love you, I give men in return for you, peoples in exchange for your life.
  2. Cross References
    Isaiah 47:1
    Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans! For you shall no more be called tender and delicate.
  3. Cross References
    Isaiah 23:13
    Behold the land of the Chaldeans! This is the people that was not; Assyria destined it for wild beasts. They erected their siege towers, they stripped her palaces bare, they made her a ruin.
  4. Cross References
    Isaiah 51:10
    Was it not you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?
    Exodus 14:21 - 22
    Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lord drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
    Psalms 77:19
    Your way was through the sea, your path through the great waters; yet your footprints were unseen.
  5. Cross References
    Exodus 14:4 - 9
    And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and he will pursue them, and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host, and the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord." And they did so.
  6. Cross References
    Psalms 76:5 - 6
    The stouthearted were stripped of their spoil; they sank into sleep; all the men of war were unable to use their hands.
  7. Cross References
    Isaiah 1:31
    And the strong shall become tinder, and his work a spark, and both of them shall burn together, with none to quench them.
    Psalms 118:12
    They surrounded me like bees; they went out like a fire among thorns; in the name of the Lord I cut them off!
  8. Cross References
    Jeremiah 16:14
    "Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when it shall no longer be said, 'As the Lord lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt,'
    Jeremiah 23:7
    "Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when they shall no longer say, 'As the Lord lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt,'
  9. Cross References
    Isaiah 42:9
    Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them.
    2 Corinthians 5:17
    Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
    Revelation 21:5
    And he who was seated on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new." Also he said, "Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.
  10. Cross References
    Isaiah 35:8
    And a highway shall be there, and it shall be called the Way of Holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it. It shall belong to those who walk on the way; even if they are fools, they shall not go astray.
  11. Cross References
    Isaiah 41:18
    I will open rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
    Isaiah 48:21
    They did not thirst when he led them through the deserts; he made water flow for them from the rock; he split the rock and the water gushed out.
  12. Cross References
    Isaiah 13:22
    Hyenas will cry in its towers, and jackals in the pleasant palaces; its time is close at hand and its days will not be prolonged.
  13. Cross References
    Isaiah 49:10
    They shall not hunger or thirst, neither scorching wind nor sun shall strike them, for he who has pity on them will lead them, and by springs of water will guide them.
  14. Cross References
    Psalms 79:13
    But we your people, the sheep of your pasture, will give thanks to you forever; from generation to generation we will recount your praise.
    Psalms 22:3
    Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.
    Psalms 105:1
    Oh give thanks to the Lord ; call upon his name; make known his deeds among the peoples!
    Luke 1:74 - 75
    That we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies, might serve him without fear.
    1 Peter 2:9
    But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
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