18 For thus says the Lord,
(A)Who created the heavens,
Who is God,
Who formed the earth and made it,
Who has established it,
Who did not create it [a]in vain,
Who formed it to be (B)inhabited:
(C)“I am the Lord, and there is no other.
19 I have not spoken in (D)secret,
In a dark place of the earth;
I did not say to the seed of Jacob,
‘Seek Me [b]in vain’;
(E)I, the Lord, speak righteousness,
I declare things that are right.

20 “Assemble yourselves and come;
Draw near together,
You who have escaped from the nations.
(F)They have no knowledge,
Who carry the wood of their carved image,
And pray to a god that cannot save.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 45:18 Or empty, a waste
  2. Isaiah 45:19 Or in a waste place

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