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14 Yahweh says: “The labor of Egypt,
    and the merchandise of Ethiopia,
    and the Sabeans, men of stature, will come over to you,
    and they will be yours.
They will go after you.
    They shall come over in chains.
    They will bow down to you.
They will make supplication to you:
    ‘Surely God is in you; and there is no one else.
    There is no other god.
15 Most certainly you are a God who has hidden yourself,
    God of Israel, the Savior.’”
16 They will be disappointed,
    yes, confounded, all of them.
    Those who are makers of idols will go into confusion together.
17 Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation.
    You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.

18 For Yahweh who created the heavens,
    the God who formed the earth and made it,
    who established it and didn’t create it a waste,
    who formed it to be inhabited says:
“I am Yahweh.
    There is no other.
19 I have not spoken in secret,
    in a place of the land of darkness.
I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’
    I, Yahweh, speak righteousness.
    I declare things that are right.

20 “Assemble yourselves and come.
    Draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations.
Those have no knowledge who carry the wood of their engraved image,
    and pray to a god that can’t save.
21 Declare and present it.
    Yes, let them take counsel together.
Who has shown this from ancient time?
    Who has declared it of old?
    Haven’t I, Yahweh?
There is no other God besides me, a just God and a Savior.
    There is no one besides me.

22 “Look 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 will not be revoked,
that to me every knee shall bow,
    every tongue shall take an oath.
24 They will say of me,
    ‘There is righteousness and strength only in Yahweh.’”
Even to him will men come.
    All those who raged against him will be disappointed.
25 All the offspring of Israel will be justified in Yahweh,
    and will rejoice!

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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