Isaiah 43 MSG

This is sweet... As u read, remember u r Jacob/ Israel

Isaiah 43 (MSG)
1-4 But 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.
When 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—
Because 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!
That’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.
“So don’t be afraid: I’m with
you.
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I’ll round up all your
scattered children,
pull them in from east
and west.
I’ll send orders north and
south:
‘Send them back.
Return my sons from distant
lands,
my daughters from
faraway places.
I 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.’”
Get the blind and deaf out
here and ready—
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the blind (though there’s
nothing wrong with their eyes)
and the deaf (though
there’s nothing wrong with
their ears).
Then 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.
“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.
I, yes I, am GOD.
I’m the only Savior there
is.
I 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.
I’ve always been God
and I always will be God.
No one can take anything from
me.
I make; who can unmake
it?”