¹⁶ This is what the Lord says—     he who made a way through the sea,
    a path through the mighty waters, ¹⁷ who drew out the chariots and horses,
    the army and reinforcements together, and they lay there, never to rise again,
    extinguished, snuffed out like a wick: ¹⁸ “Forget the former things;
    do not dwell on the past. ¹⁹ See, I am doing a new thing!
    Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness
    and streams in the wasteland.
²⁰ The wild animals honor me,     the jackals and the owls, because I provide water in the wilderness     and streams in the wasteland, to give drink to my people, my chosen, ²¹     the people I formed for myself     that they may proclaim my praise.