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16 They will all be ashamed and embarrassed;
those who fashion idols will all be humiliated.[a]
17 Israel will be delivered once and for all by the Lord;[b]
you will never again be ashamed or humiliated.[c]
18 For this is what the Lord says,
the one who created the sky—
he is the true God,[d]
the one who formed the earth and made it;
he established it,
he did not create it without order,[e]
he formed it to be inhabited:
“I am the Lord, I have no peer.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 45:16 tn “together they will walk in humiliation, the makers of images.”
  2. Isaiah 45:17 tn Heb “Israel will be delivered by the Lord [with] a permanent deliverance.”
  3. Isaiah 45:17 tn Heb “you will not be ashamed and you will not be humiliated for ages of future time.”
  4. Isaiah 45:18 tn Heb “he [is] the God.” The article here indicates uniqueness.
  5. Isaiah 45:18 tn Or “unformed.” Gen 1:2 describes the world as “unformed” (תֹהוּ, tohu) prior to God’s creative work, but God then formed the world and made it fit for habitation.