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Isaiah 45:20-25
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Isaiah 45:20-25
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Idols Cannot Save Babylon
20 Assemble yourselves and come together;
draw near, you survivors of the nations!
They have no knowledge—
those who carry about their wooden idols
and keep on praying to a god
that cannot save.(A)
21 Declare and present your case;
take counsel together![a]
Who told this long ago?
Who declared it of old?
Was it not I, the Lord?
There is no other god besides me,
a righteous God and a Savior;
there is no one besides me.(B)
22 Turn to me and be saved,
all the ends of the earth!
For I am God, and there is no other.(C)
23 By myself I have sworn;
from my mouth has gone forth in righteousness
a word that shall not return:
“To me every knee shall bow,
every tongue shall swear.”(D)
24 Only in the Lord, it shall be said of me,
are righteousness and strength;
all who were incensed against him
shall come to him and be ashamed.(E)
25 In the Lord all the offspring of Israel
shall triumph and glory.(F)
Footnotes
- 45.21 Syr Vg: Heb let them take counsel
Isaiah 45:20-25
New International Version
Isaiah 45:20-25
New International Version
20 “Gather together(A) and come;
assemble, you fugitives from the nations.
Ignorant(B) are those who carry(C) about idols of wood,
who pray to gods that cannot save.(D)
21 Declare what is to be, present it—
let them take counsel together.
Who foretold(E) this long ago,
who declared it from the distant past?(F)
Was it not I, the Lord?
And there is no God apart from me,(G)
a righteous God(H) and a Savior;(I)
there is none but me.
22 “Turn(J) to me and be saved,(K)
all you ends of the earth;(L)
for I am God, and there is no other.(M)
23 By myself I have sworn,(N)
my mouth has uttered in all integrity(O)
a word that will not be revoked:(P)
Before me every knee will bow;(Q)
by me every tongue will swear.(R)
24 They will say of me, ‘In the Lord alone
are deliverance(S) and strength.(T)’”
All who have raged against him
will come to him and be put to shame.(U)
25 But all the descendants(V) of Israel
will find deliverance(W) in the Lord
and will make their boast in him.(X)
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