The Message Bible MSG
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16 This is what God says, the God who builds a road right through the ocean, who carves a path through pounding waves,
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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 The God who summons horses and chariots and armies - they lie down and then can't get up; they're snuffed out like so many candles:
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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 "Forget about what's happened; don't keep going over old history.
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“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.
19 Be alert, be present. I'm about to do something brand-new. It's bursting out! Don't you see it? There it is! I'm making a road through the desert, rivers in the badlands.
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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.
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