18 For this saith the Lord (that created heaven, God himself that formed the earth, and made it: he that prepared it, he created it not in vain: he formed it to be [a]inhabited) I am the Lord, and there is none other.

19 I have not spoken in secret, neither [b]in a place of darkness in the earth: I said not in vain unto the seed of Jacob, Seek you me: I the Lord do speak righteousness, and declare righteous things.

20 Assemble yourselves, and come: draw near together, [c]ye abject of the Gentiles: they have no knowledge, that set up the wood of their idol, and pray unto a god, that cannot save them.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 45:18 To wit, of men, but chiefly of his Church.
  2. Isaiah 45:19 As do the false gods, which give uncertain answers.
  3. Isaiah 45:20 All ye idolaters which though you seem to have never so much worldly dignity, yet in God’s sight you are vile and abject.

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