12 I declared and saved and proclaimed,when there was no strange god among you;and you are my witnesses,” declares the Lord, “and I am God.
13 Also henceforth I am he;there is none who can deliver from my hand;I work, and who can turn it back?”
14 Thus says the Lord,your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “For your sake I send to Babylonand bring them all down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships in which they rejoice.
15 I am the Lord, your Holy One,the Creator of Israel, your King.”
16 Thus says the Lord, who makes a way in the sea,a path in the mighty waters,
17 who brings forth chariot and horse,army and warrior;they lie down, they cannot rise, they are extinguished, quenched like a wick:
18 “Remember not the former things,nor consider the things of old.