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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.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 45:17 Literally “for eternity, forever”
  2. Isaiah 45:18 Literally “creating”
  3. Isaiah 45:18 Literally “forming”
  4. Isaiah 45:18 Literally “making”
  5. Isaiah 45:19 Literally “in emptiness,” as in verse 18