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18 (A)For thus says the Lord,
who created the heavens
    (he is God!),
who formed the earth and made it
    (he established it;
he (B)did not create it empty,
    (C)he formed it to be inhabited!):
“I am the Lord, and there is no other.
19 (D)I did not speak in secret,
    in a land of darkness;
I did not say to the offspring of Jacob,
    (E)‘Seek me in vain.’[a]
I the Lord speak (F)the truth;
    I declare what is right.
20 (G)“Assemble yourselves and come;
    draw near together,
    you survivors of the nations!
(H)They have no knowledge
    who (I)carry about their wooden idols,
(J)and keep on praying to a god
    that cannot save.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 45:19 Hebrew in emptiness