Isaiah 45:14–25

Yahweh the Only Savior

¹⁴Thus says Yahweh:

“The acquisition of Egypt

and the merchandise of Cush

and the Sabeans, tall men,

shall pass over to you;

they shall be yours,

and they shall walk behind you.

They shall pass over in chains,

and they shall bow down to you;

they will pray to you:

‘Surely God is with you, and there is no other.

Besides him there is no God.’ ”

¹⁵Surely you are a God who keeps yourself hidden,

God of Israel, the savior.

¹⁶All of them are ashamed and indeed humiliated;

the craftsmen of idols go together in insult.

¹⁷Israel is saved by Yahweh with everlasting salvation;

you shall not be ashamed,

and you shall not be humiliated to all eternity.^l

¹⁸For thus says Yahweh, who created^m the heavens,

he is God, who formedⁿ the earth

and who made^o it.

He himself established it;

he did not create it as emptiness—

he formed it for inhabiting.

“I am Yahweh and there is none besides me.

¹⁹I have spoken not in secrecy, in a place, a land, of darkness,

I have not said to the descendants of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain!’^p

I, Yahweh, am speaking righteousness,

declaring uprightness.

²⁰Assemble and come;

draw near together, survivors of the nations!

They do not know, those who carry their wooden idols^q

and pray to a god who cannot save.

²¹Declare and present your case,

also let them consult together!

Who made this known^r from former times,^s

declared it from of old?^t

Was it not I, Yahweh?

And there is no other god besides me,

a righteous God besides me,

and no savior besides me.

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

for I am God and there is none besides me.

²³I have sworn by myself;

a word that^u shall not return has gone forth from my mouth in righteousness:

‘Every knee shall kneel down to me;

every tongue shall swear.’

²⁴‘Only in Yahweh,’ one shall say to me, ‘are righteousness and strength.’

He shall come to him, and all those who were angry with him shall be ashamed.

²⁵In Yahweh all the offspring of Israel shall be in the right,

and they shall boast.”