^{16 Ref} This is the word of the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, and a road through the deep waters;

^{17 Ref} Who sends out the war-carriages and the horses, the army with all its force; they have come down, they will not get up again; like a feebly burning light they are put out.

^{18 Ref} Give no thought to the things which are past; let the early times go out of your minds.

^{19 Ref} See, I am doing a new thing; now it is starting; will you not take note of it? I will even make a way in the waste land, and rivers in the dry country.