Good News Translation GNT
New International Version NIV
9 Summon the nations to come to the trial. Which of their gods can predict the future? Which of them foretold what is happening now? Let these gods bring in their witnesses to prove that they are right, to testify to the truth of their words.
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All the nations gather together and the peoples assemble. Which of their gods foretold this and proclaimed to us the former things? Let them bring in their witnesses to prove they were right, so that others may hear and say, “It is true.”
10 "People of Israel, you are my witnesses; I chose you to be my servant, so that you would know me and believe in me and understand that I am the only God. Besides me there is no other god; there never was and never will be.
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“You are my witnesses,” declares the LORD, “and my servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor will there be one after me.
11 "I alone am the Lord, the only one who can save you.
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I, even I, am the LORD, and apart from me there is no savior.
12 I predicted what would happen, and then I came to your aid. No foreign god has ever done this; you are my witnesses.
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I have revealed and saved and proclaimed— I, and not some foreign god among you. You are my witnesses,” declares the LORD, “that I am God.
13 I am God and always will be. No one can escape from my power; no one can change what I do."
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Yes, and from ancient days I am he. No one can deliver out of my hand. When I act, who can reverse it?”
14 Israel's holy God, the Lord who saves you, says, "To save you, I will send an army against Babylon; I will break down the city gates, and the shouts of her people will turn into crying.
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This is what the LORD says— your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “For your sake I will send to Babylon and bring down as fugitives all the Babylonians,in the ships in which they took pride.
15 I am the Lord, your holy God. I created you, Israel, and I am your king."
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I am the LORD, your Holy One, Israel’s Creator, your King.”
16 Long ago the Lord made a road through the sea, a path through the swirling waters.
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This is what the LORD says— he who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters,
17 He led a mighty army to destruction, an army of chariots and horses. Down they fell, never to rise, snuffed out like the flame of a lamp!
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who drew out the chariots and horses, the army and reinforcements together, and they lay there, never to rise again, extinguished, snuffed out like a wick:
18 But the Lord says, "Do not cling to events of the past or dwell on what happened long ago.
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“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.
19 Watch for the new thing I am going to do. It is happening already - you can see it now! I will make a road through the wilderness and give you streams of water there.
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See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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