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Isaiah 43
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When You’re Between a Rock and a Hard Place

43But now, GOD's Message, the God who made you in the first place, Jacob, the One who got you started, Israel: "Don't be afraid, I've redeemed you. I've called your name. You're mine.H559H3068H1254H3290H3335H3478H3372H1350H7121H8034 2When you're in over your head, I'll be there with you. When you're in rough waters, you will not go down. When you're between a rock and a hard place, it won't be a dead end—H5674H4325H5104H7857H3212H1119H784H3554H3852H1197 3Because I am GOD, your personal God, The Holy of Israel, your Savior. I paid a huge price for you: all of Egypt, with rich Cush and Seba thrown in!H3068H430H6918H3478H3467H5414H4714H3724H3568H5434 4That's how much you mean to me! That's how much I love you! I'd sell off the whole world to get you back, trade the creation just for you.H3365H5869H3513H157H5414H120H3816H5315 5"So don't be afraid: I'm with you. I'll round up all your scattered children, pull them in from east and west.H3372H935H2233H4217H6908H4628 6I'll send orders north and south: 'Send them back. Return my sons from distant lands, my daughters from faraway places.H559H6828H5414H8486H3607H935H1121H7350H1323H7097H776 7I want them back, every last one who bears my name, every man, woman, and child Whom I created for my glory, yes, personally formed and made each one.'"H3605H7121H8034H1254H3519H3335H6213 8Get the blind and deaf out here and ready— the blind (though there's nothing wrong with their eyes) and the deaf (though there's nothing wrong with their ears).H3318H5787H5971H3426H5869H2795H241 9Then get the other nations out here and ready. Let's see what they have to say about this, how they account for what's happened. Let them present their expert witnesses and make their case; let them try to convince us what they say is true.H1471H6908H3162H3816H622H5046H8085H7223H5414H5707H6663H8085H559H571 10"But you are my witnesses." GOD's Decree. "You're my handpicked servant So that you'll come to know and trust me, understand both that I am and who I am. Previous to me there was no such thing as a god, nor will there be after me.H5707H5002H3068H5650H977H3045H539H995H6440H410H3335H310 11I, yes I, am GOD. I'm the only Savior there is.H3068H1107H3467 12I spoke, I saved, I told you what existed long before these upstart gods appeared on the scene. And you know it, you're my witnesses, you're the evidence." GOD's Decree. "Yes, I am God.H5046H3467H8085H2114H5707H5002H3068H410 13I've always been God and I always will be God. No one can take anything from me. I make; who can unmake it?"H3117H5337H3027H6466H7725

You Didn’t Even Do the Minimum

14GOD, your Redeemer, The Holy of Israel, says: "Just for you, I will march on Babylon. I'll turn the tables on the Babylonians. Instead of whooping it up, they'll be wailing.H559H3068H1350H6918H3478H7971H894H3381H1281H3778H7440H591 15I am GOD, your Holy One, Creator of Israel, your King."H3068H6918H1254H3478H4428 16This is what GOD says, the God who builds a road right through the ocean, who carves a path through pounding waves,H559H3068H5414H1870H3220H5410H5794H4325 17The God who summons horses and chariots and armies— they lie down and then can't get up; they're snuffed out like so many candles:H3318H7393H5483H2428H5808H7901H3162H6965H1846H3518H6594 18"Forget about what's happened; don't keep going over old history.H2142H7223H995H6931 19Be alert, be present. I'm about to do something brand-new. It's bursting out! Don't you see it? There it is! I'm making a road through the desert, rivers in the badlands.H6213H2319H6779H3045H7760H1870H4057H5104H3452 20Wild animals will say 'Thank you!' —the coyotes and the buzzards— Because I provided water in the desert, rivers through the sun-baked earth, Drinking water for the people I chose,H2416H7704H3513H8577H1323H3284H5414H4325H4057H5104H3452H8248H5971H972 21the people I made especially for myself, a people custom-made to praise me.H2098H5971H3335H5608H8416 22"But you didn't pay a bit of attention to me, Jacob. You so quickly tired of me, Israel.H7121H3290H3021H3478 23You wouldn't even bring sheep for offerings in worship. You couldn't be bothered with sacrifices. It wasn't that I asked that much from you. I didn't expect expensive presents.H935H7716H5930H3513H2077H5647H4503H3021H3828 24But you didn't even do the minimum— so stingy with me, so closefisted. Yet you haven't been stingy with your sins. You've been plenty generous with them—and I'm fed up.H7069H7070H3701H7301H2459H2077H5647H2403H3021H5771 25"But I, yes I, am the one who takes care of your sins—that's what I do. I don't keep a list of your sins.H4229H6588H2142H2403 26"So, make your case against me. Let's have this out. Make your arguments. Prove you're in the right.H2142H8199H3162H5608H6663 27Your original ancestor started the sinning, and everyone since has joined in.H7223H1H2398H3887H6586 28That's why I had to disqualify the Temple leaders, repudiate Jacob and discredit Israel.H2490H8269H6944H5414H3290H2764H3478H1421


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