Isaiah 43:1-7

"O God, who by invisible power

accomplish a wondrous effect

through sacramental signs

and who in many ways have prepared water, your creation, to show forth the grace of Baptism"

-said at the Easter Vigil

3-4:

For I, The Lord, am your God, the Holy One of Israel, your savior. I give Egypt as ransom for you, Ethiopia and Seba in exchange for you.

Because you are precious in my eyes an dhonored, and I love you,and nations in exchange for your life