Isaiah 43

1But now Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel, says: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine.Cross-references: Gen 32:28 · Ex 15:13 · Ex 19:5 · Ex 33:17 · Deut 32:9 · Ps 100:3 · +30 more

2When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, and flame will not scorch you.Cross-references: Ex 14:29 · Deut 31:6 · Josh 1:5 · Josh 1:9 · Josh 3:15 · Ps 23:4 · +26 more

3For I am Yahweh your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I have given Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place.Cross-references: Ex 10:7 · Ex 20:2 · 2Chr 14:9 · Prov 11:8 · Prov 21:18 · Isa 20:3 · +10 more

4Since you have been precious and honored in my sight, and I have loved you, therefore I will give people in your place, and nations instead of your life.Cross-references: Gen 12:2 · Ex 19:5 · Deut 7:6 · Deut 14:2 · Deut 26:18 · Deut 32:9 · +15 more

5Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. I will bring your offspring from the east, and gather you from the west.Cross-references: Deut 30:3 · 1Ki 8:46 · Ps 22:27 · Ps 106:47 · Ps 107:3 · Isa 11:11 · +21 more

6I will tell the north, ‘Give them up!’ and tell the south, ‘Don’t hold them back! Bring my sons from far away, and my daughters from the ends of the earth—Cross-references: Ps 107:3 · Isa 18:7 · Jer 3:14 · Jer 3:18 · Hos 1:10 · Rom 9:7 · +3 more

7everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.’”Cross-references: Ps 50:23 · Ps 95:6 · Ps 100:3 · Isa 29:23 · Isa 43:1 · Isa 43:21 · +21 more

8Bring out the blind people who have eyes, and the deaf who have ears.Cross-references: Deut 29:2 · Isa 6:9 · Isa 42:18 · Isa 44:18 · Jer 5:21 · Ezek 12:2 · +1 more

9Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the peoples be assembled. Who among them can declare this, and show us former things? Let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified, or let them hear, and say, “That is true.”Cross-references: Josh 24:15 · 1Ki 18:21 · 1Ki 18:36 · Ps 49:1 · Ps 50:1 · Isa 41:1 · +8 more

10“You are my witnesses,” says Yahweh, “With my servant whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he. Before me there was no God formed, neither will there be after me.Cross-references: Isa 40:21 · Isa 41:4 · Isa 41:8 · Isa 41:20 · Isa 42:1 · Isa 43:12 · +14 moreExamined: Jehovah's Witnesses →

11I myself am Yahweh. Besides me, there is no savior.Cross-references: Deut 6:4 · Isa 12:2 · Isa 43:3 · Isa 44:6 · Isa 44:8 · Isa 45:21 · +16 more

12I have declared, I have saved, and I have shown, and there was no strange god among you. Therefore you are my witnesses”, says Yahweh, “and I am God.Cross-references: Deut 32:12 · Ps 81:9 · Isa 37:7 · Isa 37:20 · Isa 37:35 · Isa 43:10 · +3 more

13Yes, since the day was, I am he. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?”Cross-references: Deut 28:31 · Deut 32:39 · Job 9:12 · Job 34:14 · Job 34:29 · Ps 50:22 · +20 more

14Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “For your sake, I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring all of them down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships of their rejoicing.Cross-references: Ps 19:14 · Isa 23:13 · Isa 43:1 · Isa 43:3 · Isa 44:6 · Isa 44:24 · +10 more

15I am Yahweh, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.”Cross-references: Ps 74:12 · Isa 30:11 · Isa 33:22 · Isa 40:25 · Isa 41:14 · Isa 41:16 · +10 more

16Yahweh, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters,Cross-references: Ex 14:16 · Ex 14:21 · Ex 14:29 · Josh 3:13 · Neh 9:11 · Ps 74:13 · +12 more

17who brings out the chariot and horse, the army and the mighty man (they lie down together, they shall not rise; they are extinct, they are quenched like a wick) says:Cross-references: Ex 14:4 · Ex 14:23 · Ex 15:4 · Ps 46:8 · Ps 76:5 · Ps 118:12 · +5 more

18“Don’t remember the former things, and don’t consider the things of old.Cross-references: Deut 7:18 · Deut 8:2 · 1Chr 16:12 · Isa 46:9 · Isa 65:17 · Jer 16:14 · +2 more

19Behold, I will do a new thing. It springs out now. Don’t you know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.Cross-references: Ex 17:6 · Num 20:11 · Deut 8:15 · Ps 78:16 · Ps 105:41 · Isa 35:6 · +9 more

20The animals of the field, the jackals and the ostriches, shall honor me, because I give water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen,Cross-references: 1Chr 16:13 · Ps 33:12 · Ps 104:21 · Ps 148:10 · Isa 11:6 · Isa 13:22 · +16 more

21the people which I formed for myself, that they might declare my praise.Cross-references: Ps 4:3 · Ps 102:18 · Prov 16:4 · Isa 50:7 · Isa 60:21 · Isa 61:3 · +9 more

22Yet you have not called on me, Jacob; but you have been weary of me, Israel.Cross-references: Job 21:14 · Job 27:9 · Ps 14:4 · Ps 79:6 · Isa 64:7 · Jer 2:5 · +11 more

23You have not brought me any of your sheep for burnt offerings, neither have you honored me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings, nor wearied you with frankincense.Cross-references: Lev 2:1 · Prov 15:8 · Prov 21:27 · Isa 1:11 · Isa 66:3 · Jer 7:22 · +7 more

24You have bought me no sweet cane with money, nor have you filled me with the fat of your sacrifices, but you have burdened me with your sins. You have wearied me with your iniquities.Cross-references: Ex 30:7 · Ex 30:23 · Ex 30:34 · Lev 3:16 · Lev 4:31 · Ps 50:9 · +11 more

25I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.Cross-references: Ps 25:7 · Ps 25:11 · Ps 51:9 · Ps 79:8 · Isa 1:18 · Isa 37:35 · +19 more

26Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Declare your case, that you may be justified.Cross-references: Gen 32:12 · Job 16:21 · Job 23:3 · Job 40:4 · Job 40:7 · Ps 141:2 · +12 more

27Your first father sinned, and your teachers have transgressed against me.Cross-references: Num 32:14 · Ps 78:8 · Ps 106:6 · Isa 3:12 · Isa 9:15 · Isa 28:7 · +19 more

28Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; and I will make Jacob a curse, and Israel an insult.”Cross-references: Deut 28:15 · Deut 29:21 · 2Sam 1:21 · Ps 79:4 · Ps 82:6 · Ps 89:39 · +12 more