Isaiæ 43
1 et nunc haec dicit Dominus creans te Iacob et formans te Israhel noli timere quia redemi te et vocavi nomine tuo meus es tu
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 cum transieris per aquas tecum ero et flumina non operient te cum ambulaveris in igne non conbureris et flamma non ardebit in te
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 quia ego Dominus Deus tuus Sanctus Israhel salvator tuus dedi propitiationem tuam Aegyptum Aethiopiam et Saba pro te
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 ex quo honorabilis factus es in oculis meis et gloriosus ego dilexi te et dabo homines pro te et populos pro anima tua
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 noli timere quoniam tecum ego sum ab oriente adducam semen tuum et ab occidente congregabo te
Have no fear, for I am with you: I will take your seed from the east, and get you together from the west;
6 dicam aquiloni da et austro noli prohibere adfer filios meos de longinquo et filias meas ab extremis terrae
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 et omnem qui invocat nomen meum in gloriam meam creavi eum et formavi eum et feci eum
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 educ foras populum caecum et oculos habentem surdum et aures ei sunt
Send out the blind people who have eyes, and those who have ears, but they are shut.
9 omnes gentes congregatae sunt simul et collectae sunt tribus quis in vobis adnuntiet istud et quae prima sunt audire nos faciat dent testes eorum et iustificentur et audiant et dicant vere
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 vos testes mei dicit Dominus et servus meus quem elegi ut sciatis et credatis mihi et intellegatis quia ego ipse sum ante me non est formatus deus et post me non erit
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 ego sum ego sum Dominus et non est absque me salvator
I, even I, am the Lord; and there is no saviour but me.
12 ego adnuntiavi et salvavi auditum feci et non fuit in vobis alienus vos testes mei dicit Dominus et ego Deus
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 et ab initio ego ipse et non est qui de manu mea eruat operabor et quis avertet illud
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 haec dicit Dominus redemptor vester Sanctus Israhel propter vos emisi Babylonem et detraxi vectes universos et Chaldeos in navibus suis gloriantes
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 ego Dominus Sanctus vester creans Israhel Rex vester
I am the Lord, your Holy One, the Maker of Israel, your King.
16 haec dicit Dominus qui dedit in mari viam et in aquis torrentibus semitam
This is the word of the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, and a road through the deep waters;
17 qui eduxit quadrigam et equum agmen et robustum simul obdormierunt nec resurgent contriti sunt quasi linum et extincti sunt
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 ne memineritis priorum et antiqua ne intueamini
Give no thought to the things which are past; let the early times go out of your minds.
19 ecce ego facio nova et nunc orientur utique cognoscetis ea ponam in deserto viam et in invio flumina
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 glorificabit me bestia agri dracones et strutiones quia dedi in deserto aquas flumina in invio ut darem potum populo meo electo meo
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 populum istum formavi mihi laudem meam narrabit
Even the people whom I made to be the witnesses of my praise.
22 non me invocasti Iacob nec laborasti in me Israhel
But you have made no prayer to me, O Jacob: and you have given no thought to me, O Israel.
23 non obtulisti mihi arietem holocausti tui et victimis tuis non glorificasti me non te servire feci in oblatione nec laborem tibi praebui in ture
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 non emisti mihi argento calamum et adipe victimarum tuarum non inebriasti me verumtamen servire me fecisti in peccatis tuis praebuisti mihi laborem in iniquitatibus tuis
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 ego sum ego sum ipse qui deleo iniquitates tuas propter me et peccatorum tuorum non recordabor
I, even I, am he who takes away your sins; and I will no longer keep your evil doings in mind.
26 reduc me in memoriam et iudicemur simul narra si quid habes ut iustificeris
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 pater tuus primus peccavit et interpretes tui praevaricati sunt in me
Your first father was a sinner, and your guides have gone against my word.
28 et contaminavi principes sanctos dedi ad internicionem Iacob et Israhel in blasphemiam
Your chiefs have made my holy place unclean, so I have made Jacob a curse, and Israel a thing of shame.
