The Lord, the Only Savior

14 Thus says the Lord:
(A)“The wealth of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush,
    and the Sabeans, men of stature,
shall come over to you (B)and be yours;
    they shall follow you;
    they shall come over in chains and bow down to you.
They will plead with you, saying:
    ‘Surely God is in you, and there is no other,
    no god besides him.’”

15 (C)Truly, you are a God who hides himself,
    O God of Israel, the Savior.
16 (D)All of them are put to shame and confounded;
    the makers of idols go in confusion together.
17 But Israel is saved by the Lord
    with everlasting salvation;
(E)you shall not be put to shame or confounded
    to all eternity.

18 (F)For thus says the Lord,
who created the heavens
    (he is God!),
who formed the earth and made it
    (he established it;
he (G)did not create it empty,
    (H)he formed it to be inhabited!):
“I am the Lord, and there is no other.
19 (I)I did not speak in secret,
    in a land of darkness;
I did not say to the offspring of Jacob,
    (J)‘Seek me in vain.’[a]
I the Lord speak (K)the truth;
    I declare what is right.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 45:19 Hebrew in emptiness

14 This is what the Lord says:

“The products(A) of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush,[a]
    and those tall Sabeans(B)
they will come over to you(C)
    and will be yours;
they will trudge behind you,(D)
    coming over to you in chains.(E)
They will bow down before you
    and plead(F) with you, saying,
‘Surely God is with you,(G) and there is no other;
    there is no other god.(H)’”

15 Truly you are a God who has been hiding(I) himself,
    the God and Savior(J) of Israel.
16 All the makers of idols will be put to shame and disgraced;(K)
    they will go off into disgrace together.
17 But Israel will be saved(L) by the Lord
    with an everlasting salvation;(M)
you will never be put to shame or disgraced,(N)
    to ages everlasting.

18 For this is what the Lord says—
he who created the heavens,
    he is God;
he who fashioned and made the earth,(O)
    he founded it;
he did not create it to be empty,(P)
    but formed it to be inhabited(Q)
he says:
“I am the Lord,
    and there is no other.(R)
19 I have not spoken in secret,(S)
    from somewhere in a land of darkness;(T)
I have not said to Jacob’s descendants,(U)
    ‘Seek(V) me in vain.’
I, the Lord, speak the truth;
    I declare what is right.(W)

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 45:14 That is, the upper Nile region