1   Bvt nowe thus sayeth the Lorde, ^note that created thee, O Iaakob: and hee that formed thee, O Israel, ^note Feare not: for I haue redeemed thee: I haue called thee by thy name, thou art mine.

2   When thou passest through the ^note waters, I wil be with thee, & through the floods, that they doe not ouerflowe thee. When thou walkest through the very fire, thou shalt not be burnt, neither shall the flame kindle vpon thee.

3   For I am the Lorde thy God, the holy one of Israel, thy Sauiour: I gaue ^note Egypt for thy ransome, Ethiopia, and Seba for thee.

4   Because thou wast precious in my sight, and thou wast honourable, and I loued thee, therefore will I giue ^note man for thee, and people for thy sake.

5   Feare not, for I am with thee: I will bring thy seede from the ^note East, and gather thee from the West.

6   I will say to the North, Giue: and to the South, Keepe not backe: bring my sonnes from farre, & my daughters from the ends of the earth.

7   Euery one shall be called by my ^note Name: for I created him for my glorie, formed him and made him.

8   I will bring foorth the blinde people, and they shall haue eyes, and the deafe, and they shall haue eares.

9   Let all the nations be gathered ^note together, & let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this and shewe vs former things? let them bring foorth their ^note witnesses, that they may be iustified: but let them ^note heare, & say, It is truth.

10   You ^note are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my ^note seruant, whom I haue chosen: therefore yee shall knowe and beleeue me and yee shall vnderstand that I am: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.

11   I, euen I am the Lorde, and beside me there is no Sauiour.

12   I haue declared, and I haue saued, and I haue shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore you are my witnesses, sayeth the Lord, that I am God.

13   Yea, before the day was, I am, and there is none that can deliuer out of mine hand: I will doe it, and who shall let it? Gods elect people.

14   Thus sayeth the Lorde your redeemer, the holy one of Israel, For your sake I haue sent to Babel, and ^note brought it downe: they are all fugitiues, and the Chaldeans crie in ^note the shippes.

15   I am the Lorde your holy one, the creator of Israel, your King.

16   Thus sayeth the Lord which maketh a way in ^note the Sea, and a path in the mighty ^note waters.

17   When hee ^note bringeth out the ^note charet and horse, the armie and the power lie together, and shal not rise: they are extinct, & quenched as towe.

18   Remember yee not the former things, neither regard the things of olde.

19   Behold, I do a new thing: now shal it come foorth: shall you not knowe it? I wil euen make a way in the ^note desert, and floods in the wildernesse.

20   The wilde ^note beastes shall honour mee, the dragons and the ostriches, because I gaue water in the desert, and floods in the wildernesse to giue drinke to my people, euen to mine elect.

21   This people haue I formed for my selfe: they shall shewe foorth my praise.

22   And thou hast not ^note called vpon mee, O Iaakob, but thou hast ^note wearied me, O Israel.

23   Thou ^note hast not brought me the sheepe of thy burnt offrings, neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I haue not caused thee to serue with an offring, nor wearied thee with incense.

24   Thou boughtest mee no sweete ^note sauour with money, neither hast thou made mee drunke with the fatte of thy sacrifices, but thou hast made mee to ^note serue with thy sinnes, and wearied mee with thine iniquities.

25   I, euen I am he that putteth away thine iniquities for mine owne sake, and will not remember thy sinnes.

26   Put me in ^note remembrance: let vs be iudged together: count thou that thou maist be iustified.

27   Thy ^note first father hath sinned, and thy ^note teachers haue transgressed against me.

28   Therefore I haue ^note prophaned the rulers of the Sanctuarie, and haue made Iaakob a curse, and Israel a reproche.

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