18 For thus says the Lord, who (A)created the heavens (He is the God who (B)formed the earth and made it, He established it and did not create it [a]a (C)waste place, but formed it to be (D)inhabited),

“I am the Lord, and (E)there is none else.
19 (F)I have not spoken in secret,
In [b]some dark land;
I did not say to the [c](G)offspring of Jacob,
(H)Seek Me in [d]a waste place’;
I, the Lord, (I)speak righteousness,
(J)Declaring things that are upright.

20 (K)Gather yourselves and come;
Draw near together, you fugitives of the nations;
(L)They have no knowledge,
Who (M)carry about [e]their wooden idol
And (N)pray to a god who cannot save.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 45:18 Or in vain
  2. Isaiah 45:19 Lit a place of a land of darkness
  3. Isaiah 45:19 Lit seed
  4. Isaiah 45:19 Or vain
  5. Isaiah 45:20 Lit the wood of their graven image