Isaiah 45:15-20

New Living Translation

¹⁵ Truly, O God of Israel, our Savior,
    you work in mysterious ways.
¹⁶ All craftsmen who make idols will be humiliated.
    They will all be disgraced together.
¹⁷ But the Lord will save the people of Israel
    with eternal salvation.
Throughout everlasting ages,
    they will never again be humiliated and disgraced.

¹⁸ For the Lord is God,
    and he created the heavens and earth
    and put everything in place.
He made the world to be lived in,
    not to be a place of empty chaos.
“I am the Lord,” he says,
    “and there is no other.
¹⁹ I publicly proclaim bold promises.
    I do not whisper obscurities in some dark corner.
I would not have told the people of Israel^[a] to seek me
    if I could not be found.
I, the Lord, speak only what is true
    and declare only what is right.

²⁰ “Gather together and come,
    you fugitives from surrounding nations.
What fools they are who carry around their wooden idols
    and pray to gods that cannot save!