19. Behold, I am accomplishing new things. And presently, they will spring forth. With certainty, you will know them. I will make a way in the desert, and rivers in an impassible place.
20. The wild beasts of the field will glorify me, with the serpents and the ostriches. For I have brought waters to the desert, rivers to inaccessible places, in order to give drink to my people, to my elect.
21. This is the people whom I have formed for myself. They will speak my praise.
22. But you have not called upon me, O Jacob, nor have you struggled for me, O Israel.
23. You have not offered me the ram of your holocaust, and you have not glorified me with your victims. I have not burdened you with oblations, nor have I wearied you with incense.
24. You have bought me no sweet cane with money, and you have not inebriated me with the fat of your victims. Yet truly, you have burdened me with your sins; you have wearied me with your iniquities.
25. I am. I am the very One who wipes away your iniquities for my own sake. And I will not remember your sins.
26. Call me to mind, and let us go to judgment together. If you have anything to justify yourself, explain it.
27. Your first father sinned, and your interpreters have betrayed me.
28. And so, I have defiled the holy leaders. I have handed over Jacob to slaughter, and Israel to calumny.