¹² I have revealed and saved and proclaimed—
    I, and not some foreign god^(A) among you.
You are my witnesses,^(B)” declares the Lord, “that I am God.

¹⁸ “Forget the former things;^(A)
    do not dwell on the past.
¹⁹ See, I am doing a new thing!^(B)
    Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness^(C)
    and streams in the wasteland.^(D)