Lead out those who have eyes but are blind!
Bring out those who have ears but are deaf!
Gather all the nations together!
Assemble all the peoples of the earth!
Which of their gods predicted this?
Which of them told us what was coming?
Let them produce witnesses to prove their claim!
Let’s see them convince us they’re telling the truth.
“You are my witnesses,” declares the Lord,
“and my servant whom I have chosen,
that you may know and believe me
and understand that I am the only God.
No god existed before me,
and there are none who will outlive me.
I, yes I, am the Lord,
and besides me there is no savior.
I declared, I saved, I proclaimed—
I did, not some foreign god among you—
so you are my witnesses,” declares the Lord, “that I am God
and always have been.
No one exists who can take what is mine.
When I act, who can undo it?”
This is what the Lord,
your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, says:
“For your sake I will send to Babylon
and bring them all down as fugitives—
yes, the Chaldeans, fleeing desperately in their ships.
I am the Lord, your Holy One,
the Creator of Israel, your King.”
This is what the Lord says—
the one who paved a way right through the ocean
and carved a path in the crashing waves,
the one who led out the chariots and horses,
the army and its mighty warriors—
they lay there, never to rise again,
extinguished, quenched like a wick:
“Don’t focus on how it happened last time;
don’t dwell on the past.
Look! I’m doing a new thing!
Don’t you see it bursting forth?
I’m making a road through the desert
and rivers in the wasteland.
The wild beasts will honor me,
the jackals and the owls,
because I provide water in the desert,
streams in the sun-baked land,
to give drink to my chosen people,
the people whom I formed for myself
that they might declare my praise.”