Isaiah 45:18-20

International Standard Version

¹⁸ For this is what the Lord says,
    who created the heavens—
he is God,
    and^[a] the one who formed the earth and made it,
and^[b] he is the one who established it;
    he didn’t create it for^[c] chaos,
        but formed it to be inhabited—

“I am the Lord and there is no other.
¹⁹ I didn’t speak in secret,
        from somewhere in a land of darkness;
I didn’t say to Jacob’s descendants,
    ‘Seek me in chaos.’
I, the Lord, speak truth,
    declaring what is right.

²⁰ “Gather together and come;
    draw near and enter,^[d]
        your fugitives from the nations.
Those who carry around their wooden idols
    know nothing,
nor do those who keep praying to a god
    that cannot save.