3  For I am the Lord your God,

the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.

I give ^wEgypt as your ransom,

Cush and Seba in exchange for you.

4  Because you are precious in my eyes,

and honored, and I ^xlove you,

I give men in return for you,

peoples in exchange for your life.

5  ^yFear not, for I am with you;

I will bring your offspring ^zfrom the east,

and from the west I will gather you.

14  Thus says the Lord,

your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:

“For your sake I send to Babylon

and bring them all down as fugitives,

even the Chaldeans, in the ships in which they rejoice.