Isaiæ 43
1 [Et nunc hæc dicit Dominus creans te, Jacob, et formans te, Israël: Noli timere, quia redemi te, et vocavi te 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 combureris, 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 Israël, salvator tuus, dedi propitiationem tuam Ægyptum, Æthopiam, 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, quia ego tecum 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: affer filios meos de longinquo, et filias meas ab extremis terræ.
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, 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 cæcum, 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 congregatæ sunt simul, et collectæ sunt tribus. Quis in vobis annuntiet istud, et quæ prima sunt audire nos faciet? Dent testes eorum, justificentur, 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 intelligatis 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 annuntiavi, 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 [Hæc dicit Dominus, redemptor vester, Sanctus Israël: Propter vos misi in Babylonem, et detraxi vectes universos, et Chaldæos 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 Israël, rex vester.
I am the Lord, your Holy One, the Maker of Israel, your King.
16 Hæc 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 struthiones: 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, Jacob, nec laborasti in me, Israël.
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 præbui in thure.
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; præbuisti 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 judicemur simul: narra si quid habes ut justificeris.
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 prævaricati sunt in me:
Your first father was a sinner, and your guides have gone against my word.
28 et contaminavi principes sanctos; dedi ad internecionem Jacob, et Israël in blasphemiam.]
Your chiefs have made my holy place unclean, so I have made Jacob a curse, and Israel a thing of shame.
