Isaiah 45:14-25

Common English Bible

¹⁴The Lord says:
Egypt will grow weary, Cush will be sold,^[a]
    and the tall Sabeans will cross over to you.
They will be yours, and after you they will go.
    In chains they will come;
    to you they will bow down.
    They will plead with you:
“Truly God is with you;
    there’s no other, no other God.”
¹⁵Surely you are a god who hides himself,
    Israel’s God and savior.

Idols contrasted with God

¹⁶They will all be shamed and disgraced;
    the makers of idols will end up disgraced together.
¹⁷Israel has been saved by the Lord of everlasting salvation.
You won’t be shamed,
    and you won’t be disgraced forever and always.
¹⁸For this is what the Lord said, who created the heavens,
    who is God,
    who formed the earth and made it,
    who established it,
    who didn’t create it a wasteland but formed it as a habitation:
    I, the Lord, and none other!
¹⁹I didn’t speak in secret
    or in some land of darkness;
I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob,
    “Seek me in chaos.”
I am the Lord, the one who speaks truth,
    who announces what is correct.
²⁰Gather and come,
    draw near together,
    fugitives of the nations!
Those who carry their wooden idols don’t know;
    those who pray to a god who won’t save.
²¹Announce! Approach! Confer together!
    Who proclaimed this from the beginning, announced it from long ago?
Wasn’t it I, the Lord?
    There’s no other God except me,
    a righteous God and a savior;
    there’s none besides me!
²²Turn to me and be saved,
    all you ends of the earth,
    for I am God, and there’s no other.
²³I have sworn a solemn pledge;
    a word has left my mouth;
    it is reliable and won’t fail.
Surely every knee will bow
and every tongue will confess;
²⁴    they will say, “Righteousness and strength come only from the Lord.
    All who are angry with him will come to shame.
²⁵All the Israelites
    will be victorious and rejoice.”