Isaiah 45:11-25

New International Version

¹¹“This is what the Lord says—
    the Holy One^(A) of Israel, and its Maker:^(B)
Concerning things to come,
    do you question me about my children,
    or give me orders about the work of my hands?^(C)
¹²It is I who made the earth^(D)
    and created mankind on it.
My own hands stretched out the heavens;^(E)
    I marshaled their starry hosts.^(F)
¹³I will raise up Cyrus^[a]^(G) in my righteousness:
    I will make all his ways straight.^(H)
He will rebuild my city^(I)
    and set my exiles free,
but not for a price or reward,^(J)
    says the Lord Almighty.”

¹⁴This is what the Lord says:

“The products^(K) of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush,^[b]
    and those tall Sabeans^(L)—
they will come over to you^(M)
    and will be yours;
they will trudge behind you,^(N)
    coming over to you in chains.^(O)
They will bow down before you
    and plead^(P) with you, saying,
‘Surely God is with you,^(Q) and there is no other;
    there is no other god.^(R)’”

¹⁵Truly you are a God who has been hiding^(S) himself,
    the God and Savior^(T) of Israel.
¹⁶All the makers of idols will be put to shame and disgraced;^(U)
    they will go off into disgrace together.
¹⁷But Israel will be saved^(V) by the Lord
    with an everlasting salvation;^(W)
you will never be put to shame or disgraced,^(X)
    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,^(Y)
    he founded it;
he did not create it to be empty,^(Z)
    but formed it to be inhabited^(AA)—
he says:
“I am the Lord,
    and there is no other.^(AB)
¹⁹I have not spoken in secret,^(AC)
    from somewhere in a land of darkness;^(AD)
I have not said to Jacob’s descendants,^(AE)
    ‘Seek^(AF) me in vain.’
I, the Lord, speak the truth;
    I declare what is right.^(AG)

²⁰“Gather together^(AH) and come;
    assemble, you fugitives from the nations.
Ignorant^(AI) are those who carry^(AJ) about idols of wood,
    who pray to gods that cannot save.^(AK)
²¹Declare what is to be, present it—
    let them take counsel together.
Who foretold^(AL) this long ago,
    who declared it from the distant past?^(AM)
Was it not I, the Lord?
    And there is no God apart from me,^(AN)
a righteous God^(AO) and a Savior;^(AP)
    there is none but me.

²²“Turn^(AQ) to me and be saved,^(AR)
    all you ends of the earth;^(AS)
    for I am God, and there is no other.^(AT)
²³By myself I have sworn,^(AU)
    my mouth has uttered in all integrity^(AV)
    a word that will not be revoked:^(AW)
Before me every knee will bow;^(AX)
    by me every tongue will swear.^(AY)
²⁴They will say of me, ‘In the Lord alone
    are deliverance^(AZ) and strength.^(BA)’”
All who have raged against him
    will come to him and be put to shame.^(BB)
²⁵But all the descendants^(BC) of Israel
    will find deliverance^(BD) in the Lord
    and will make their boast in him.^(BE)