Isaiah 45:14–25

¹⁴This is what the Lord says:

“The products^m of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush,^c

and those tall Sabeansⁿ—

they will come over to you^o

and will be yours;

they will trudge behind you,^p

coming over to you in chains.^q

They will bow down before you

and plead^r with you, saying,

‘Surely God is with you,^s and there is no other;

there is no other god.^t’ ”

¹⁵Truly you are a God who has been hiding^u himself,

the God and Savior^v of Israel.

¹⁶All the makers of idols will be put to shame and disgraced;^w

they will go off into disgrace together.

¹⁷But Israel will be saved^x by the Lord

with an everlasting salvation;^y

you will never be put to shame or disgraced,^z

to ages everlasting.

¹⁸For this is what the Lord says—

he who created the heavens,

he is God;

he who fashioned and made the earth,^a

he founded it;

he did not create it to be empty,^b

but formed it to be inhabited^c—

he says:

“I am the Lord,

and there is no other.^d

¹⁹I have not spoken in secret,^e

from somewhere in a land of darkness;^f

I have not said to Jacob’s descendants,^g

‘Seek^h me in vain.’

I, the Lord, speak the truth;

I declare what is right.ⁱ

²⁰“Gather together^j and come;

assemble, you fugitives from the nations.

Ignorant^k are those who carry^l about idols of wood,

who pray to gods that cannot save.^m

²¹Declare what is to be, present it—

let them take counsel together.

Who foretoldⁿ this long ago,

who declared it from the distant past?^o

Was it not I, the Lord?

And there is no God apart from me,^p

a righteous God^q and a Savior;^r

there is none but me.

²²“Turn^s to me and be saved,^t

all you ends of the earth;^u

for I am God, and there is no other.^v

²³By myself I have sworn,^w

my mouth has uttered in all integrity^x

a word that will not be revoked:^y

Before me every knee will bow;^z

by me every tongue will swear.^a

²⁴They will say of me, ‘In the Lord alone

are deliverance^b and strength.^c’ ”

All who have raged against him

will come to him and be put to shame.^d

²⁵But all the descendants^e of Israel

will find deliverance^f in the Lord

and will make their boast in him.^g