Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageLook — I am doing something new! Even now it is beginning to bud and grow — can you not see it? I am making a road through the wilderness and rivers flowing through the desert.'
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GSee — I am doing a new thing! Even now it is springing forth; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and rivers in the wasteland.'
KJV
King James VersionBehold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleBehold, 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 and streams in the desert.
Footnotes
hineni ('Look — I!') is the emphatic divine self-presentation. khadashah (new thing) is placed in deliberate contrast to rishonim (former things) of v. 18. The road-and-water imagery directly inverts the wilderness wandering: instead of forty years of survival-level provision, a new Exodus will burst with abundance. Typologically, this 'new thing' points beyond the return from Babylon toward the new creation of Revelation 21:1–5 ('Behold, I make all things new'). FOG preserves 'wasteland' for yeshimon (desolation); FOG Message uses 'desert' to complete the parallel with the verse's second half.
