18 “Stop dwelling on the past.
Don’t even remember these former things.
19 I am doing something brand new, something unheard of.
Even now it sprouts and grows and matures.
Don’t you perceive it?[s]
I will make a way in the wilderness
and open up flowing streams[t] in the desert.
20 Wild beasts,[u] jackals, and owls will glorify me.[v]
For I supply streams of water in the desert
and rivers in the wilderness
to satisfy the thirst of my people, my chosen ones”