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.

6  I will say to the north, Give up,

and to the south, Do not withhold;

^abring my sons from afar

^band my daughters from the end of the earth,

7  everyone who is ^ccalled by my name,

whom I created for my glory,

whom I formed and made.”