12:2 Look, God is my deliverer! 1
I will trust in him 2 and not fear.
For the Lord gives me strength and protects me; 3
he has become my deliverer.” 4
45:17 Israel will be delivered once and for all by the Lord; 5
you will never again be ashamed or humiliated. 6
45:18 For this is what the Lord says,
the one who created the sky –
he is the true God, 7
the one who formed the earth and made it;
he established it,
he did not create it without order, 8
he formed it to be inhabited –
“I am the Lord, I have no peer.
45:19 I have not spoken in secret,
in some hidden place. 9
I did not tell Jacob’s descendants,
‘Seek me in vain!’ 10
I am the Lord,
the one who speaks honestly,
who makes reliable announcements. 11
45:20 Gather together and come!
Approach together, you refugees from the nations!
Those who carry wooden idols know nothing,
those who pray to a god that cannot deliver.
45:21 Tell me! Present the evidence! 12
Let them consult with one another!
Who predicted this in the past?
Who announced it beforehand?
Was it not I, the Lord?
I have no peer, there is no God but me,
a God who vindicates and delivers; 13
there is none but me.
45:22 Turn to me so you can be delivered, 14
all you who live in the earth’s remote regions!
For I am God, and I have no peer.