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Isaiah 45:9 (NIVUK)
‘Woe to those who quarrel with their Maker, those who are nothing but potsherds among the potsherds on the ground. Does the clay say to the potter, “What are you making?” Does your work say, “The potter has no hands”?
Isaiah 45:10 (NIVUK)
Woe to the one who says to a father, “What have you begotten?” or to a mother, “What have you brought to birth?”
Isaiah 45:11 (NIVUK)
‘This is what the Lord says – the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker: concerning things to come, do you question me about my children, or give me orders about the work of my hands?
Isaiah 45:12 (NIVUK)
It is I who made the earth and created mankind on it. My own hands stretched out the heavens; I marshalled their starry hosts.
Isaiah 45:13 (NIVUK)
I will raise up Cyrus in my righteousness: I will make all his ways straight. He will rebuild my city and set my exiles free, but not for a price or reward, says the Lord Almighty.’
Isaiah 45:14 (NIVUK)
This is what the Lord says: ‘The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush, and those tall Sabeans – they will come over to you and will be yours; they will trudge behind you, coming over to you in chains. They will bow down before you and plead with you, saying, “Surely God is with you, and there is no other; there is no other god.” ’
Isaiah 45:15 (NIVUK)
Truly you are a God who has been hiding himself, the God and Saviour of Israel.
Isaiah 45:16 (NIVUK)
All the makers of idols will be put to shame and disgraced; they will go off into disgrace together.
Isaiah 45:17 (NIVUK)
But Israel will be saved by the Lord with an everlasting salvation; you will never be put to shame or disgraced, to ages everlasting.
Isaiah 45:18 (NIVUK)
For this is what the Lord says – he who created the heavens, he is God; he who fashioned and made the earth, he founded it; he did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited – he says: ‘I am the Lord , and there is no other.
Isaiah 45:19 (NIVUK)
I have not spoken in secret, from somewhere in a land of darkness; I have not said to Jacob’s descendants, “Seek me in vain.” I, the Lord , speak the truth; I declare what is right.
Isaiah 45:20 (NIVUK)
‘Gather together and come; assemble, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry about idols of wood, who pray to gods that cannot save.
Isaiah 45:21 (NIVUK)
Declare what is to be, present it – let them take counsel together. Who foretold this long ago, who declared it from the distant past? Was it not I, the Lord ? And there is no God apart from me, a righteous God and a Saviour; there is none but me.
Isaiah 45:22 (NIVUK)
‘Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.
Isaiah 45:23 (NIVUK)
By myself I have sworn, my mouth has uttered in all integrity a word that will not be revoked: before me every knee will bow; by me every tongue will swear.
Isaiah 45:24 (NIVUK)
They will say of me, “In the Lord alone are deliverance and strength.” ’ All who have raged against him will come to him and be put to shame.
Isaiah 45:25 (NIVUK)
But all the descendants of Israel will find deliverance in the Lord and will make their boast in him.
Isaiah 46:1 (NIVUK)
Bel bows down, Nebo stoops low; their idols are borne by beasts of burden. The images that are carried about are burdensome, a burden for the weary.
Isaiah 46:2 (NIVUK)
They stoop and bow down together; unable to rescue the burden, they themselves go off into captivity.
Isaiah 46:3 (NIVUK)
‘Listen to me, you descendants of Jacob, all the remnant of the people of Israel, you whom I have upheld since your birth, and have carried since you were born.
Isaiah 46:4 (NIVUK)
Even to your old age and grey hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.
Isaiah 46:5 (NIVUK)
‘With whom will you compare me or count me equal? To whom will you liken me that we may be compared?
Isaiah 46:6 (NIVUK)
Some pour out gold from their bags and weigh out silver on the scales; they hire a goldsmith to make it into a god, and they bow down and worship it.
Isaiah 46:7 (NIVUK)
They lift it to their shoulders and carry it; they set it up in its place, and there it stands. From that spot it cannot move. Even though someone cries out to it, it cannot answer; it cannot save them from their troubles.
Isaiah 46:9 (NIVUK)
Remember the former things, those of long ago; I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me.