The Lord, the Only Savior

14 Thus says the Lord:
(A)“The wealth of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush,
    and the Sabeans, men of stature,
shall come over to you (B)and be yours;
    they shall follow you;
    they shall come over in chains and bow down to you.
They will plead with you, saying:
    ‘Surely God is in you, and there is no other,
    no god besides him.’”

15 (C)Truly, you are a God who hides himself,
    O God of Israel, the Savior.
16 (D)All of them are put to shame and confounded;
    the makers of idols go in confusion together.
17 But Israel is saved by the Lord
    with everlasting salvation;
(E)you shall not be put to shame or confounded
    to all eternity.

18 (F)For thus says the Lord,
who created the heavens
    (he is God!),
who formed the earth and made it
    (he established it;
he (G)did not create it empty,
    (H)he formed it to be inhabited!):
“I am the Lord, and there is no other.
19 (I)I did not speak in secret,
    in a land of darkness;
I did not say to the offspring of Jacob,
    (J)‘Seek me in vain.’[a]
I the Lord speak (K)the truth;
    I declare what is right.

20 (L)“Assemble yourselves and come;
    draw near together,
    you survivors of the nations!
(M)They have no knowledge
    who (N)carry about their wooden idols,
(O)and keep on praying to a god
    that cannot save.
21 (P)Declare and present your case;
    let them take counsel together!
Who told this long ago?
    Who declared it of old?
Was it not I, the Lord?
    And there is no other god besides me,
a righteous God (Q)and a Savior;
    there is none besides me.

22 “Turn to me and be saved,
    (R)all the ends of the earth!
    For I am God, and there is no other.
23 (S)By myself I have sworn;
    from my mouth has gone out in (T)righteousness
    a word that shall not return:
(U)‘To me every knee shall bow,
    every tongue shall swear allegiance.’[b]

24 (V)“Only in the Lord, it shall be said of me,
    are righteousness and (W)strength;
to him shall come and be ashamed
    (X)all who were incensed against him.
25 In the Lord all the offspring of Israel
    shall be justified and shall glory.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 45:19 Hebrew in emptiness
  2. Isaiah 45:23 Septuagint every tongue shall confess to God

14 This is what the Lord says:

“The products(A) of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush,[a]
    and those tall Sabeans(B)
they will come over to you(C)
    and will be yours;
they will trudge behind you,(D)
    coming over to you in chains.(E)
They will bow down before you
    and plead(F) with you, saying,
‘Surely God is with you,(G) and there is no other;
    there is no other god.(H)’”

15 Truly you are a God who has been hiding(I) himself,
    the God and Savior(J) of Israel.
16 All the makers of idols will be put to shame and disgraced;(K)
    they will go off into disgrace together.
17 But Israel will be saved(L) by the Lord
    with an everlasting salvation;(M)
you will never be put to shame or disgraced,(N)
    to ages everlasting.

18 For this is what the Lord says—
he who created the heavens,
    he is God;
he who fashioned and made the earth,(O)
    he founded it;
he did not create it to be empty,(P)
    but formed it to be inhabited(Q)
he says:
“I am the Lord,
    and there is no other.(R)
19 I have not spoken in secret,(S)
    from somewhere in a land of darkness;(T)
I have not said to Jacob’s descendants,(U)
    ‘Seek(V) me in vain.’
I, the Lord, speak the truth;
    I declare what is right.(W)

20 “Gather together(X) and come;
    assemble, you fugitives from the nations.
Ignorant(Y) are those who carry(Z) about idols of wood,
    who pray to gods that cannot save.(AA)
21 Declare what is to be, present it—
    let them take counsel together.
Who foretold(AB) this long ago,
    who declared it from the distant past?(AC)
Was it not I, the Lord?
    And there is no God apart from me,(AD)
a righteous God(AE) and a Savior;(AF)
    there is none but me.

22 “Turn(AG) to me and be saved,(AH)
    all you ends of the earth;(AI)
    for I am God, and there is no other.(AJ)
23 By myself I have sworn,(AK)
    my mouth has uttered in all integrity(AL)
    a word that will not be revoked:(AM)
Before me every knee will bow;(AN)
    by me every tongue will swear.(AO)
24 They will say of me, ‘In the Lord alone
    are deliverance(AP) and strength.(AQ)’”
All who have raged against him
    will come to him and be put to shame.(AR)
25 But all the descendants(AS) of Israel
    will find deliverance(AT) in the Lord
    and will make their boast in him.(AU)

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 45:14 That is, the upper Nile region