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17 Who leads out chariots and horsemen,
    a powerful army,
Till they lie prostrate together, never to rise,
    snuffed out, quenched like a wick.(A)
18 Remember not[a] the events of the past,
    the things of long ago consider not;
19 See, I am doing something new!
    Now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?
In the wilderness I make a way,
    in the wasteland, rivers.

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Footnotes

  1. 43:18 Remember not: God’s new act of delivering Israel from the Babylonian captivity is presented as so great a marvel as to eclipse even the memory of the exodus from Egypt. This comparison of the return from Babylon to the exodus from Egypt recurs throughout Second Isaiah (cf. 41:17–20; 43:18–21; 48:20–21; 49:8–13; 51:9–11).

17 who drew out(A) the chariots and horses,(B)
    the army and reinforcements together,(C)
and they lay(D) there, never to rise again,
    extinguished, snuffed out like a wick:(E)
18 “Forget the former things;(F)
    do not dwell on the past.
19 See, I am doing a new thing!(G)
    Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness(H)
    and streams in the wasteland.(I)

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