³ For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your saviour; I have given Egypt as a price for you, Ethiopia and Seba for you.

² I am the Lord your God who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house.

²⁶ And the flesh of your attackers will be taken by themselves for food; and they will take their blood for drink, as if it was sweet wine: and all men will see that I the Lord am your saviour, even he who takes up your cause, the Strong One of Jacob.

²¹ Give the word, put forward your cause, let us have a discussion together: who has given news of this in the past? who made it clear in early times? did not I, the Lord? and there is no God but me; a true God and a saviour; there is no other.

¹⁵ Truly, you have a secret God, the God of Israel is a Saviour!

¹⁸ The evil-doer will be given as a price for the life of the good man, and the worker of deceit in the place of the upright.

²⁵ To the only God our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, let us give glory and honour and authority and power, before all time and now and for ever. So be it.

⁴ But when the mercy of God our Saviour, and his love to man was seen,

⁵ Not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but in the measure of his mercy, he gave us salvation, through the washing of the new birth and the giving of new life in the Holy Spirit,

⁶ Which he gave us freely through Jesus Christ our Saviour;

¹⁰ Not taking what is not theirs, but giving clear signs of their good faith, in all things doing credit to the teaching of God our Saviour.

¹¹ For the grace of God has come, giving salvation to all men,

¹² Training us so that, turning away from evil and the desires of this world, we may be living wisely and uprightly in the knowledge of God in this present life;

¹³ Looking for the glad hope, the revelation of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ;

¹⁴ Who gave himself for us, so that he might make us free from all wrongdoing, and make for himself a people clean in heart and on fire with good works.

⁴ But I am the Lord your God, from the land of Egypt; you have knowledge of no other God and there is no saviour but me.

¹⁶ And you will take the milk of the nations, flowing from the breast of kings; and you will see that I, the Lord, am your saviour, and he who takes up your cause, the Strong One of Jacob.

¹¹ Get out of the good way, turning from the right road; do not keep the Holy One of Israel before our minds.

⁹ And Zerah the Ethiopian, with an army of a million, and three hundred war-carriages, came out against them to Mareshah.

¹⁰ And Asa went out against him, and they put their forces in position in the valley north of Mareshah.

¹¹ And Asa made prayer to the Lord his God and said, Lord, you only are able to give help against the strong to him who has no strength; come to our help, O Lord our God, for our hope is in you, and in your name we have come out against this great army. O Lord, you are our God; let not man's power be greater than yours.

¹² So the Lord sent fear on the Ethiopians before Asa and Judah; and the Ethiopians went in flight.

¹³ And Asa and the people who were with him went after them as far as Gerar; and so great was the destruction among the Ethiopians that they were not able to get their army together again, for they were broken before the Lord and before his army; and they took away a great amount of their goods.

¹⁴ And they overcame all the towns round Gerar, because the Lord sent fear on them; and they took away their goods from the towns, for there were stores of wealth in them.

¹⁴ Have no fear, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel; I will be your helper, says the Lord, even he who takes up your cause, the Holy One of Israel.

⁸ The upright man is taken out of trouble, and in his place comes the sinner.

⁷ And Pharaoh's servants said to him, How long is this man to be the cause of evil to us? let the men go so that they may give worship to the Lord their God: are you not awake to Egypt's danger?

³ And the Lord said, As my servant Isaiah has gone unclothed and without shoes for three years as a sign and a wonder to Egypt and Ethiopia,