1 Maar nou, so sê die HERE, jou Skepper, o Jakob, en jou Formeerder, o Israel: Wees nie bevrees nie, want Ek het jou verlos; Ek het jou by jou naam geroep; jy is myne!
2 As jy deur die water gaan, is Ek by jou; en deur die riviere -- hulle sal jou nie oorstroom nie; as jy deur vuur gaan, sal jy jou nie skroei nie, en die vlam sal jou nie brand nie.
3 Want Ek is die HERE, jou God, die Heilige van Israel, jou Heiland; Ek het Egipte gegee as losprys vir jou, Kus en Seba in jou plek.
4 Omdat jy kostelik is in my oë, hooggeag is, en Ek jou liefhet, daarom gee Ek mense in jou plek en volke vir jou lewe.
5 Wees nie bevrees nie, want Ek is met jou; Ek sal jou geslag van die ooste af aanbring en jou versamel van die weste af.
6 Ek sal sê aan die noorde: Gee! en aan die suide: Hou nie terug nie! Bring my seuns van ver, en my dogters van die einde van die aarde af,
7 elkeen wat na my Naam genoem is en wat Ek geskape het tot my eer, wat Ek geformeer, wat Ek ook gemaak het.
8 Bring uit die volk wat blind is en tog oë het, en die dowes wat ore het.
9 Al die nasies het saam vergader, en die volke is versamel. Wie onder hulle kan sulke dinge verkondig? En laat hulle ons die vorige dinge bekend maak! Laat hulle hul getuies bring, dat hulle in die gelyk gestel kan word; en laat hulle hoor en sê: Dit is die waarheid!
10 Julle is my getuies, spreek die HERE, en my kneg wat Ek uitverkies het, sodat julle kan weet en My kan glo en insien dat dit Ek is -- voor My is geen God geformeer nie, en n My sal daar geeneen wees nie.
11 Ek, Ek is die HERE, en daar is geen Heiland buiten My nie.
12 Âk het verkondig en verlos en dit laat hoor, en daar was geen ander god onder julle nie; en julle is my getuies, spreek die HERE, en Ek is God.
13 Ook van vandag af is Ek dit, en niemand red uit my hand nie; Ek werk, en wie kan dit keer?
14 So sê die HERE, jou Losser, die Heilige van Israel: Om julle ontwil het Ek na Babel gestuur, en Ek sal hulle almal as vlugtelinge laat afdaal, naamlik die Chaldeërs, in die skepe waarop hulle gejuig het.
15 Ek is die HERE, julle Heilige; die Skepper van Israel, julle Koning.
16 So sê die HERE wat in die see 'n weg en in die sterk waters 'n pad gemaak het,
17 wat waens en perde, leërmag en held laat uittrek het; tesame lê hulle, hulle sal nie opstaan nie; hulle is uitgeblus, soos 'n lamppit uitgedoof.
18 Dink nie aan die vorige dinge nie, en slaan geen ag op wat vroeër gebeur het nie.
19 Kyk, Ek gaan iets nuuts maak; nou sal dit uitspruit; sal julle dit nie merk nie? Ja, Ek maak 'n pad in die woestyn, riviere in die wildernis.
20 Die wilde diere van die veld sal My eer, die jakkalse en die volstruise; want Ek gee waters in die woestyn, riviere in die wildernis om my volk, my uitverkorene, te laat drink.
21 Die volk wat Ek vir My geformeer het, hulle sal my lof verkondig.
22 Nogtans het jy My nie aangeroep, o Jakob, dat jy jou vir My sou vermoei het nie, o Israel!
23 Jy het vir My nie gebring die kleinvee van jou brandoffers nie, en met jou slagoffers het jy My nie geëer nie; Ek het jou geen oorlas aangedoen met spysoffers en jou nie vermoei met wierook nie.
24 Jy het vir My geen kalmoes met geld gekoop en met die vet van jou slagoffers My nie verkwik nie; maar jy het My oorlas aangedoen met jou sondes, jy het My vermoei met jou ongeregtighede.
25 Ek, Ek is dit wat jou oortredinge uitdelg om My ontwil, en aan jou sondes dink Ek nie.
26 Maak My indagtig; laat ons teen mekaar pleit; vertel jy, dat jy in die gelyk gestel kan word.
27 Jou eerste vader het gesondig, en jou tolke het teen My oortree.
28 So het Ek dan heilige vorste ontheilig en Jakob aan die banvloek oorgegee en Israel aan beskimpinge.
1 But now, says the Lord your Maker, O Jacob, and your life-giver, O Israel: have no fear, for I have taken up your cause; naming you by your name, I have made you mine.
2 When you go through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not go over you: when you go through the fire, you will not be burned; and the flame will have no power over you.
3 For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your saviour; I have given Egypt as a price for you, Ethiopia and Seba for you.
4 Because of your value in my eyes, you have been honoured, and loved by me; so I will give men for you, and peoples for your life.
5 Have no fear, for I am with you: I will take your seed from the east, and get you together from the west;
6 I will say to the north, Give them up; and to the south, Do not keep them back; send back my sons from far, and my daughters from the end of the earth;
7 Every one who is named by my name, and whom I have made for my glory, who has been formed and designed by me.
8 Send out the blind people who have eyes, and those who have ears, but they are shut.
9 Let all the nations come together, and let the peoples be present: who among them is able to make this clear, and give us word of earlier things? let their witnesses come forward, so that they may be seen to be true, and that they may give ear, and say, It is true.
10 You are my witnesses, says the Lord, and my servant whom I have taken for myself: so that you may see and have faith in me, and that it may be clear to you that I am he; before me there was no God formed, and there will not be after me.
11 I, even I, am the Lord; and there is no saviour but me.
12 I gave the word, and made it clear, and there was no strange god among you: for this reason you are my witnesses, says the Lord.
13 From time long past I am God, and from this day I am he: there is no one who is able to take you out of my hand: when I undertake a thing, by whom will my purpose be changed?
14 The Lord, who has taken up your cause, the Holy One of Israel, says, Because of you I have sent to Babylon, and made all their seers come south, and the Chaldaeans whose cry is in the ships.
15 I am the Lord, your Holy One, the Maker of Israel, your King.
16 This is the word of the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, and a road through the deep waters;
17 Who sends out the war-carriages and the horses, the army with all its force; they have come down, they will not get up again; like a feebly burning light they are put out.
18 Give no thought to the things which are past; let the early times go out of your minds.
19 See, I am doing a new thing; now it is starting; will you not take note of it? I will even make a way in the waste land, and rivers in the dry country.
20 The beasts of the field will give me honour, the jackals and the ostriches: because I send out waters in the waste land, and rivers in the dry country, to give drink to the people whom I have taken for myself:
21 Even the people whom I made to be the witnesses of my praise.
22 But you have made no prayer to me, O Jacob: and you have given no thought to me, O Israel.
23 You have not made me burned offerings of sheep, or given me honour with your offerings of beasts; I did not make you servants to give me an offering, and I did not make you tired with requests for perfumes.
24 You have not got me sweet-smelling plants with your money, or given me pleasure with the fat of your offerings: but you have made me a servant to your sins, and you have made me tired with your evil doings.
25 I, even I, am he who takes away your sins; and I will no longer keep your evil doings in mind.
26 Put me in mind of this; let us take up the cause between us: put forward your cause, so that you may be seen to be in the right.
27 Your first father was a sinner, and your guides have gone against my word.
28 Your chiefs have made my holy place unclean, so I have made Jacob a curse, and Israel a thing of shame.