10. The Lord says, “You are my witnessesand the servant I chose.I chose you so you would know and believe me,so you would understand that I am the true God.There was no God before me,and there will be no God after me.
11. I myself am the Lord;I am the only Savior.
12. I myself have spoken to you, saved you, and told you these things.It was not some foreign god among you.You are my witnesses, and I am God,”says the Lord.
13. “I have always been God.No one can save people from my power;when I do something, no one can change it.”
14. This is what the Lord, who saves you,the Holy One of Israel, says:“I will send armies to Babylon for you,and I will knock down all its locked gates.The Babylonians will shout their cries of sorrow.
15. I am the Lord, your Holy One,the Creator of Israel, your King.”
16. This is what the Lord says.He is the one who made a road through the seaand a path through rough waters.
17. He is the one who defeated the chariots and horsesand the mighty armies.They fell together and will never rise again.They were destroyed as a flame is put out.
18. The Lord says, “Forget what happened before,and do not think about the past.
19. Look at the new thing I am going to do.It is already happening. Don’t you see it?I will make a road in the desertand rivers in the dry land.
20. Even the wild animals will be thankful to me—the wild dogs and owls.They will honor me when I put water in the desertand rivers in the dry landto give water to my people, the ones I chose.
21. The people I madewill sing songs to praise me.
22. “People of Jacob, you have not called to me;people of Israel, you have become tired of me.