The Lord, the Only Savior

14 Thus says the Lord:

(A)“The labor of Egypt and merchandise of Cush
And of the Sabeans, men of stature,
Shall come over to you, and they shall be yours;
They shall walk behind you,
They shall come over (B)in chains;
And they shall bow down to you.
They will make supplication to you, saying, (C)‘Surely God is in you,
And there is no other;
(D)There is no other God.’ ”

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23 (A)Kings shall be your foster fathers,
And their queens your nursing mothers;
They shall bow down to you with their faces to the earth,
And (B)lick up the dust of your feet.
Then you will know that I am the Lord,
(C)For they shall not be ashamed who wait for Me.”

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25 [a]And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed; and so, falling down on his face, he will worship God and report (A)that God is truly among you.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 14:25 NU omits And thus

20 “Thus says the Lord of hosts:

‘Peoples shall yet come,
Inhabitants of many cities;
21 The inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying,
(A)“Let us continue to go and pray before the Lord,
And seek the Lord of hosts.
I myself will go also.”
22 Yes, (B)many peoples and strong nations
Shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem,
And to pray before the Lord.’

23 “Thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘In those days ten men (C)from every language of the nations shall (D)grasp the [a]sleeve of a Jewish man, saying, “Let us go with you, for we have heard (E)that God is with you.” ’ ”

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  1. Zechariah 8:23 Lit. wing, corner of a garment

19 O Lord, (A)my strength and my fortress,
(B)My refuge in the day of affliction,
The Gentiles shall come to You
From the ends of the earth and say,
“Surely our fathers have inherited lies,
Worthlessness and (C)unprofitable things.

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(A)Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks,
And the sons of the foreigner
Shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
(B)But you shall be named the priests of the Lord,
They shall call you the servants of our God.
(C)You shall eat the riches of the Gentiles,
And in their glory you shall boast.

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33 Behold, the Lord,
The Lord of hosts,
Will lop off the bough with terror;
(A)Those of high stature will be hewn down,
And the haughty will be humbled.

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To bind their kings with chains,
And their nobles with fetters of iron;

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Indeed I will make (A)those of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews and are not, but lie—indeed (B)I will make them come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.

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For they themselves declare concerning us (A)what manner of entry we had to you, (B)and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God,

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Therefore concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that (A)an idol is nothing in the world, (B)and that there is no other God but one. For even if there are (C)so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords), yet (D)for us there is one God, the Father, (E)of whom are all things, and we for Him; and (F)one Lord Jesus Christ, (G)through whom are all things, and (H)through whom we live.

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25 As Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him and fell down at his feet and worshiped him. 26 But Peter lifted him up, saying, (A)“Stand up; I myself am also a man.”

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I will sell your sons and your daughters
Into the hand of the people of Judah,
And they will sell them to the (A)Sabeans,[a]
To a people (B)far off;
For the Lord has spoken.”

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  1. Joel 3:8 Lit. Shebaites, Is. 60:6; Ezek. 27:22

(A)Indeed Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon,
With fine branches that shaded the forest,
And of high stature;
And its top was among the thick boughs.

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42 The sound of a carefree multitude was with her, and [a]Sabeans were brought from the wilderness with men of the common sort, who put bracelets on their [b]wrists and beautiful crowns on their heads.

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  1. Ezekiel 23:42 Or drunkards
  2. Ezekiel 23:42 Lit. hands

19 (A)I will set a sign among them; and those among them who escape I will send to the nations: to Tarshish and [a]Pul and Lud, who draw the bow, and Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands afar off who have not heard My fame nor seen My glory. (B)And they shall declare My glory among the Gentiles. 20 Then they shall (C)bring all your brethren (D)for an offering to the Lord out of all nations, on horses and in chariots and in litters, on mules and on camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem,” says the Lord, “as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the Lord.

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  1. Isaiah 66:19 So with MT, Tg.; LXX Put (cf. Jer. 46:9)

Their descendants shall be known among the Gentiles,
And their offspring among the people.
All who see them shall acknowledge them,
(A)That they are the posterity whom the Lord has blessed.”

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Then you shall see and become radiant,
And your heart shall swell with joy;
Because (A)the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you,
The wealth of the Gentiles shall come to you.
The multitude of camels shall cover your land,
The dromedaries of Midian and (B)Ephah;
All those from (C)Sheba shall come;
They shall bring (D)gold and incense,
And they shall proclaim the praises of the Lord.
All the flocks of (E)Kedar shall be gathered together to you,
The rams of Nebaioth shall minister to you;
They shall ascend with (F)acceptance on My altar,
And (G)I will glorify the house of My glory.

“Who are these who fly like a cloud,
And like doves to their roosts?
(H)Surely the coastlands shall wait for Me;
And the ships of Tarshish will come first,
(I)To bring your sons from afar,
(J)Their silver and their gold with them,
To the name of the Lord your God,
And to the Holy One of Israel,
(K)Because He has glorified you.

10 “The(L) sons of foreigners shall build up your walls,
(M)And their kings shall minister to you;
For (N)in My wrath I struck you,
(O)But in My favor I have had mercy on you.
11 Therefore your gates (P)shall be open continually;
They shall not be shut day or night,
That men may bring to you the wealth of the Gentiles,
And their kings in procession.
12 (Q)For the nation and kingdom which will not serve you shall perish,
And those nations shall be utterly ruined.

13 “The(R) glory of Lebanon shall come to you,
The cypress, the pine, and the box tree together,
To beautify the place of My sanctuary;
And I will make (S)the place of My feet glorious.
14 Also the sons of those who afflicted you
Shall come (T)bowing to you,
And all those who despised you shall (U)fall prostrate at the soles of your feet;
And they shall call you The City of the Lord,
(V)Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

15 “Whereas you have been forsaken and hated,
So that no one went through you,
I will make you an eternal excellence,
A joy of many generations.
16 You shall drink the milk of the Gentiles,
(W)And milk the breast of kings;
You shall know that (X)I, the Lord, am your Savior
And your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

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24 He shall say,
[a]‘Surely in the Lord I have (A)righteousness and strength.
To Him men shall come,
And (B)all shall be ashamed
Who are incensed against Him.

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  1. Isaiah 45:24 Or Only in the Lord are all righteousness and strength

I (A)am the Lord, and (B)there is no other;
There is no God besides Me.
(C)I will gird you, though you have not known Me,
(D)That they may (E)know from the rising of the sun to its setting
That there is none besides Me.
I am the Lord, and there is no other;

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For I am the Lord your God,
The Holy One of Israel, your Savior;
(A)I gave Egypt for your ransom,
Ethiopia and Seba in your place.

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18 Her gain and her pay (A)will be set apart for the Lord; it will not be treasured nor laid up, for her gain will be for those who dwell before the Lord, to eat sufficiently, and for [a]fine clothing.

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  1. Isaiah 23:18 choice

23 In that day (A)there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian will come into Egypt and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians will (B)serve with the Assyrians.

24 In that day Israel will be one of three with Egypt and Assyria—a blessing in the midst of the land, 25 whom the Lord of hosts shall bless, saying, “Blessed is Egypt My people, and Assyria (C)the work of My hands, and Israel My inheritance.”

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In that time (A)a present will be brought to the Lord of hosts
[a]From a people tall and smooth of skin,
And from a people terrible from their beginning onward,
A nation powerful and treading down,
Whose land the rivers divide—
To the place of the name of the Lord of hosts,
To Mount Zion.

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  1. Isaiah 18:7 So with DSS, LXX, Vg.; MT omits From; Tg. To

Mercy on Jacob

14 For the Lord (A)will have mercy on Jacob, and (B)will still choose Israel, and settle them in their own land. (C)The strangers will be joined with them, and they will cling to the house of Jacob. Then people will take them (D)and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them for servants and maids in the land of the Lord; they will take them captive whose captives they were, (E)and rule over their oppressors.

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