Rhyming Isaiah, Chapter 43

Rhyming Isaiah, Chapter 43

But Jacob, now, thus says the LORD, he who

created you, o Is’rael, who formed you:

Fear not for it is you whom I’ve redeemed;

I have called you by name and you are mine.

When you pass through the waters, at that time,

I will be with you and, and the river’s streams

will not o’erwhelm you; when you walk through fire,

you won’t be burned, and scorched, you will not be

by the hot flames.  For I’m your God, said he,

I am the Holy One of Israel,

your Savior, as your ransom, give, I will,

all, Egypt, Seba, Ethiopia,

them in exchange for you. It is because

you’re precious in my sigh and honored too,

and simply put, that fact, that I love you.

I, people, give them in return for you,

the nations, for your life, giv’n in exchange.

Don’t fear for I am with you every day.

Your offspring, I will bring them from the east,

and from the west, I’ll gather you; ‘Release

them,’ this, what I am saying to the north,

and to the south, ‘Don’t interrupt their course’;

bring all my sons from far away, that source,

and daughters, my, from the ends of the earth,

bring all, to whom are, by my name, referred,

all whom I have created, all I’ve formed,

whom I made, it’s my glory, what they’re for.

The people who are blind, now bring them here,

the people who are deaf yet still have ears!

Together, all the nations, gather, let,

the peoples, to assemble, them, permit.

Amongst them who declares things in the past,

and who interprets all the former things?

So that the people hear them prove their case,

let them, their witnesses, now forward bring

and let them hear and say, “That is the truth.”

The LORD declares, ‘My witnesses are you,

you are my servant, you, the one I’ve chos’n,

so that you will believe me and you’ll know

and put your trust in me and you’ll confirm

I am the LORD.  Before me, none was formed,

no other god, nor ever shall there be

another one that might come after me.

I am the LORD and I alone am he

who is your Savior. I declared and saved,

and made it known, it was no god, one strange

among you, and you are my witnesses,

the LORD says.  I’m God in the future tense.

I am He.  There is no one else who can

deliver anybody from my hand.

I work and no one, me, can countermand.

These are the LORD’s words, who’s, Redeemer, your,

the Holy One of Is’rael: your sake, for.

I will to Babylon, an army, send,

and I will break down all the prison’s bars,

then the Chaledeans’ joy at once will end,

and, into lamentation, it will turn.

I am the LORD who is your Holy One

of Is’rael, the Creator, and your King

who makes a way that passes through the sea,

through mighty waters, paths you can walk on,

who leads the chariots and horsemen out

together with an army that’s elite

to their destruction, they lie down in rout

and never will they rise back on their feet,

they were extinguished, like a wick, snuffed out.

Stop dwelling on the past, the former things.

I am about to do a thing that’s new,

it will unfold and it will forward spring,

is it not something that’s within your view?

It’s through the wilderness, I’ll make a way

and rivers in the land that now is waste.

The animals who’re wild will honor me,

the jackals, wolves, the owls, and ostriches,

for I give water in the wilderness

and rivers in the wastes where they can drink.

My chosen people, for myself, I made

so they announce, and can proclaim my praise.

Yet Jacob, you do not upon me call,

but weary, in my service, Israel,

is how you grew. You haven’t brought them whole,

your sheep for offerings you have withheld,

nor, with your sacrifices, honored me.

I have not burdened you with offerings

or wearied you with frankincense demands,

you have not bought me aromatic reeds

or offered me your sacrifices’ fat.

But rather, with your sins, you’ve burdened me.

You’ve wearied me with your iniquities.

I, I am he, for my sake, who blots out

all your transgressions and, your sins, I’ll not

remember them.  Accuse me, make your case

at trial; make your pleadings so you may

be proved as innocent.  Your ancestor,

your first one sinned, and your interpreters

transgressed against me.  Therefore I profaned

the princes at the sanctuary’s gates,

why, Jacob, I, to scorn, there, I confined,

and Is’rael, how I left to be reviled.