Isaiah 45:14-25

Modern English Version

The products of Egypt and merchandise of Ethiopia
    and of the Sabeans—men of stature—
shall come over to you,
    and they shall be yours;
they shall come after you;
    in chains they shall come over,
and they shall fall down before you.
    They shall make supplication to you, saying,
“Surely God is with you, and there is no other;
    there is no other God.”

¹⁵ Truly You are a God who hides Yourself,
    O God of Israel, the Savior.
¹⁶ They shall be ashamed and also humiliated, all of them;
    the craftsmen of idols shall go away in confusion together,
¹⁷ but Israel shall be saved by the Lord
    with an everlasting salvation;
you shall not be ashamed nor humiliated
    to all eternity.

¹⁸ For thus says the Lord,
who created the heavens,
    who is God,
who formed the earth and made it,
    who has established it,
who did not create it in vain,
    who formed it to be inhabited:
I am the Lord,
    and there is no other.
¹⁹ I have not spoken in secret
    in a dark place of the earth;
I did not say to the descendants of Jacob,
    “Seek Me in a waste place”;
I, the Lord, speak righteousness;
    I declare things that are right.

²⁰ Assemble yourselves and come;
    draw near together, you fugitives of the nations.
They have no knowledge who set up the wood of their carved image,
    and pray to a god that cannot save.
²¹ Declare and set forth your case;
    let them take counsel together.
Who has declared this from ancient times?
    Who has told it from that time?
Have not I, the Lord?
    And there is no God besides Me,
a righteous God and Savior;
    there is no other besides Me.

²² Turn to Me and be saved,
    all the ends of the earth.
    For I am God, and there is no other.
²³ I have sworn by Myself,
    the word has gone out of My mouth in righteousness
    and shall not return,
that to Me every knee shall bow,
    every tongue shall take an oath.
²⁴ Surely, one shall say, “Only in the Lord
    are righteousness and strength.”
Men shall come to him,
    and all who are incensed at Him shall be ashamed.
²⁵ In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel
    be justified and shall glory.