Isaiah 45:14-25
Legacy Standard Bible
14 Thus says Yahweh,
“The fruit of the labor of (A)Egypt and the profit of [a](B)Ethiopia
And the Sabeans, men of stature,
Will (C)come over to you and will be yours;
They will walk behind you; they will come over in (D)chains
And will (E)bow down to you;
They will make supplication to you:
‘[b]Surely, (F)God is [c]with you, and (G)there is none else,
No other God.’”
15 Truly, You are a God who (H)hides Himself,
O God of Israel, (I)Savior!
16 They will be (J)put to shame and even dishonored, all of them;
The (K)craftsmen of idols will go away together in dishonor.
17 Israel has been saved by Yahweh
With an (L)everlasting salvation;
You (M)will not be put to shame or dishonored
To all eternity.
18 For thus says Yahweh, who (N)created the heavens (He is the God who (O)formed the earth and made it; He established it and did not create it [d]a (P)formless place, but formed it to be (Q)inhabited),
“I am Yahweh, and (R)there is none else.
19 (S)I have not spoken in secret,
In [e]some dark land;
I did not say to the (T)seed of Jacob,
‘(U)Seek Me in [f]a formless place’;
I, Yahweh, (V)speak righteousness,
(W)Declaring things that are upright.
20 “(X)Gather yourselves and come;
Draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations;
(Y)They do not know,
Who (Z)carry about their graven image of wood
And (AA)pray to a god who cannot save.
21 (AB)Declare and draw near with your case;
Indeed, let them consult together.
(AC)Who has made this heard from of old?
Who has long since declared it?
Is it not I, Yahweh?
And there is (AD)no other God besides Me,
A righteous God and a (AE)Savior;
There is none except Me.
22 (AF)Turn to Me and (AG)be saved, all the ends of the earth;
For I am God, and there is no other.
23 (AH)I have sworn by Myself,
The (AI)word has gone forth from My mouth in righteousness
And will not turn back,
That to Me (AJ)every knee will bow, every tongue will (AK)swear allegiance.
24 They will say of Me, ‘Only (AL)in Yahweh are righteousness and strength.’
Men will come to Him,
And (AM)all who were angry at Him will be put to shame.
25 In Yahweh all the seed of Israel
Will be (AN)justified and will (AO)boast.”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 45:14 Or Cush, cf. Gen 10:6
- Isaiah 45:14 Or God is with you alone
- Isaiah 45:14 Or in
- Isaiah 45:18 Or in vain
- Isaiah 45:19 Lit a place of a land of darkness
- Isaiah 45:19 Or vain
Isaiah 45:14-25
Lexham English Bible
Yahweh the Only Savior
14 Thus says Yahweh:
“The acquisition of Egypt
and the merchandise of Cush
and the Sabeans, tall men,
shall pass over to you;
they shall be yours,
and they shall walk behind you.
They shall pass over in chains,
and they shall bow down to you;
they will pray to you:
‘Surely God is with you, and there is no other.
Besides him there is no God.’”
15 Surely you are a God who keeps yourself hidden,
God of Israel, the savior.
16 All of them are ashamed and indeed humiliated;
the craftsmen of idols go together in insult.
17 Israel is saved by Yahweh with everlasting salvation;
you shall not be ashamed,
and you shall not be humiliated to all eternity.[a]
18 For thus says Yahweh, who created[b] the heavens,
he is God, who formed[c] the earth
and who made[d] it.
He himself established it;
he did not create it as emptiness—
he formed it for inhabiting.
“I am Yahweh and there is none besides me.
19 I have spoken not in secrecy, in a place, a land, of darkness,
I have not said to the descendants of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain!’[e]
I, Yahweh, am speaking righteousness,
declaring uprightness.
20 Assemble and come;
draw near together, survivors of the nations!
They do not know, those who carry their wooden idols[f]
and pray to a god who cannot save.
21 Declare and present your case,
also let them consult together!
Who made this known[g] from former times,[h]
declared it from of old?[i]
Was it not I, Yahweh?
And there is no other god besides me,
a righteous God besides me,
and no savior besides me.
22 Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth,
for I am God and there is none besides me.
23 I have sworn by myself;
a word that[j] shall not return has gone forth from my mouth in righteousness:
‘Every knee shall kneel down to me;
every tongue shall swear.’
24 ‘Only in Yahweh,’ one shall say to me, ‘are righteousness and strength.’
He shall come to him, and all those who were angry with him shall be ashamed.
25 In Yahweh all the offspring of Israel shall be in the right,
and they shall boast.”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 45:17 Literally “for eternity, forever”
- Isaiah 45:18 Literally “creating”
- Isaiah 45:18 Literally “forming”
- Isaiah 45:18 Literally “making”
- Isaiah 45:19 Literally “in emptiness,” as in verse 18
- Isaiah 45:20 Literally “the wood of their idol”
- Isaiah 45:21 Literally “caused to hear this”
- Isaiah 45:21 Literally “before”
- Isaiah 45:21 Literally “then”
- Isaiah 45:23 Or “and”
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