Isaiah 45:14–25

¹⁴This is what the Lord says: 

The products from Egypt, the merchandise from Sudan, 

and the important Sabaeans will come to you. 

They will belong to you. 

They will follow you. 

They will come to you in chains. 

They will bow to you and pray to you, 

“Certainly God is with you alone, and there is no other God.” 

¹⁵Certainly, you are a God who has hidden himself. 

You are the God of Israel, the Savior! 

¹⁶Those who make idols will be ashamed and disgraced. 

They will go away completely disgraced. 

¹⁷Israel has been saved by the Lord forever. 

You will never again be ashamed or disgraced. 

¹⁸The Lord created the heavens. 

God formed the earth and made it. 

He set it up. 

He did not create it to be empty 

but formed it to be inhabited. 

This is what the Lord says: 

I am the Lord, and there is no other. 

¹⁹I haven’t spoken privately or in some dark corner of the world. 

I didn’t say to Jacob’s descendants, 

“Search for me in vain!” 

I, the Lord, speak what is fair and say what is right. 

²⁰Come here, you refugees from the nations. 

Ignorant people carry wooden idols 

and pray to gods that cannot save ⸤anyone⸥. 

²¹Speak and present your case. Yes, let them consult one another. 

Who revealed this in the distant past and predicted it long ago? 

Wasn’t it I, the Lord? 

There is no other God except me. 

There is no other righteous God and Savior besides me. 

²²Turn to me and be saved, all who live at the ends of the earth, 

because I am God, and there is no other. 

²³I have bound myself with an oath. 

A word has gone out from my righteous mouth that will not be recalled, 

“Every knee will bow to me 

and every tongue will swear ⸤allegiance⸥.” 

²⁴It will be said of me, 

“Certainly, righteousness and strength are found in the Lord alone.” 

All who are angry with him will come to him and be ashamed. 

²⁵All the descendants of Israel will be declared righteous, 

and they will praise the Lord.