14  Thus says the Lord,

your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:

^e“For your sake I send to Babylon

and ^fbring them all down as fugitives,

^geven 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,

^hwho makes a way in the sea,

a path in the mighty waters,

17  who ⁱbrings forth chariot and horse,

army and warrior;

they lie down, they cannot rise,

^jthey are extinguished, ^kquenched like a wick:

18  ^l“Remember not the former things,

nor consider the things of old.

19  ^mBehold, I am doing a new thing;

now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?

ⁿI will make a way in the wilderness

^oand rivers in the desert.

20  The wild beasts will honor me,

^pthe jackals and the ostriches,

^qfor I give water in the wilderness,

rivers in the desert,

to give drink to my chosen people,

21  the people whom I formed for myself

^rthat they might declare my praise.

11  ^wDepart, depart, go out from there;

touch no unclean thing;

go out from the midst of her; purify yourselves,

^xyou who bear the vessels of the Lord.

12  For you shall not ^ygo out in haste,

and you shall not go in flight,

^zfor the Lord will go before you,

^aand the God of Israel will be your rear guard.