Isaiah 43 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

Israel Redeemed

Isa 43:1But 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.

Isa 43:2

Isa 43:2When 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.

Isa 43:3

Isa 43:3For 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.

Isa 43:4

Isa 43:4Because 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.

Isa 43:5

Isa 43:5Have no fear, for I am with you: I will take your seed from the east, and get you together from the west;

Isa 43:6

Isa 43:6I 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;

Isa 43:7

Isa 43:7Every one who is named by my name, and whom I have made for my glory, who has been formed and designed by me.

Israel Is God's Witness

Isa 43:8

Isa 43:8Send out the blind people who have eyes, and those who have ears, but they are shut.

Isa 43:9

Isa 43:9Let 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.

Isa 43:10

Isa 43:10You 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.

Isa 43:11

Isa 43:11I, even I, am the Lord; and there is no saviour but me.

Isa 43:12

Isa 43:12I 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.

Isa 43:13

Isa 43:13From 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?

Babylon to Be Destroyed

Isa 43:14

Isa 43:14The 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.

Isa 43:15

Isa 43:15I am the Lord, your Holy One, the Maker of Israel, your King.

Isa 43:16

Isa 43:16This is the word of the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, and a road through the deep waters;

Isa 43:17

Isa 43:17Who 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.

Isa 43:18

Isa 43:18Give no thought to the things which are past; let the early times go out of your minds.

Isa 43:19

Isa 43:19See, 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.

Isa 43:20

Isa 43:20The 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:

Isa 43:21

Isa 43:21Even the people whom I made to be the witnesses of my praise.

The Shortcomings of Israel

Isa 43:22

Isa 43:22But you have made no prayer to me, O Jacob: and you have given no thought to me, O Israel.

Isa 43:23

Isa 43:23You 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.

Isa 43:24

Isa 43:24You 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.

Isa 43:25

Isa 43:25I, even I, am he who takes away your sins; and I will no longer keep your evil doings in mind.

Isa 43:26

Isa 43:26Put 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.

Isa 43:27

Isa 43:27Your first father was a sinner, and your guides have gone against my word.

Isa 43:28

Isa 43:28Your chiefs have made my holy place unclean, so I have made Jacob a curse, and Israel a thing of shame.

The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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