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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,[a]
        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.
21 Explain and present a case!
    Yes, let them take counsel together.
Who announced this long ago,
    who declared it from the distant past?
        Was it not I, the Lord?
And there is no other God besides me,
    a righteous God and Savior;
        and[b] there is none besides me.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 45:20 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read together
  2. Isaiah 45:21 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack and