20 He’s feeding on ashes;his deluded mind has led him astray.He can’t save himself and say,"Isn’t this thing in my hand a lie?"
21 Remember these things, Jacob;Israel, for you are my servant.I formed you; you are my servant!I won’t forget you, Israel.
22 I swept away your rebellions like a cloud,and your sins like fog.Return to me,because I have redeemed you.
23 Sing, heavens, for the Lord has acted;shout, depths of the earth!Burst out with a ringing cry,you mountains, forest, and every tree in it.The Lord has redeemed Jacob,and will glorify himself through Israel.
24 The Lord your redeemerwho formed you in the womb says:I am the Lord, the maker of all,who alone stretched out the heavens,who spread out the earth by myself,
25 who frustrates the omens of divinersand makes a mockery of magicians,who turns back the wiseand turns their knowledge into folly.
26 But who confirms the word of my servant,and fulfills the predictions of my messengers;who says about Jerusalem, "It will be resettled";and who says about the cities of Judah, "They will be rebuilt,and I will restore their ruins";