Recently I shared Isaiah 43:19 with our Eternal Perspective Ministries staff. I was so moved by that verse that I looked it up in every translation, via Bible Gateway. Keep in mind that each of these nine versions I chose was translated by a team of Hebrew scholars who had reasons for rendering it as they did, and each has a just little different nuance or two that I loved hearing. Maybe one or more of them in particular will strike you:

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. (NIV)

Look, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness, rivers in the desert. (CSB)

Look! I’m doing a new thing; now it sprouts up; don’t you recognize it? I’m making a way in the desert, paths in the wilderness.  (CEB)

I am doing something new; it’s springing up — can’t you see it? I am making a road in the desert, rivers in the wastelands. (CJB)

I am creating something new. There it is! Do you see it? I have put roads in deserts, streams in thirsty lands. (CEV)

Watch for the new thing I am going to do. It is happening already—you can see it now! I will make a road through the wilderness and give you streams of water there. (GNT)

Look at the new thing I am going to do. It is already happening. Don’t you see it? I will make a road in the desert and rivers in the dry land. (NCV)

Look, I am about to do something new. Now it begins to happen! Do you not recognize it? Yes, I will make a road in the wilderness and paths in the wastelands. (NET)

For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland. (NLT)

Sometimes we need the reminder that God can do what is humanly impossible, and that He knows what is eternally best in ways we cannot. God can see ultimate purposes and plans that we can’t see. Consider what Isaiah 46:9–11 says: “I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me. I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say: My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.... What I have said, that will I bring about; what I have planned, that will I do.”

God is “the LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle!” (Psalm 24:8). The rhetorical question “Is anything too hard for the LORD?” implies a “no” answer (see Genesis 18:14; Jeremiah 32:27).

Gabriel says to Mary, “Nothing is impossible with God” (Luke 1:37). Jesus says, “With God all things are possible” (Matthew 19:26).

God is the “Almighty” (2 Corinthians 6:18; Revelation 1:8). He is “able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think” (Ephesians 3:20, ESV). John the Baptist says, “God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham” (Matthew 3:9, ESV).

May you experience the reality of Isaiah 43:19 in your life. I am asking God to do this for me also!