Yesaya 44:7

44:7 Who is like me? Let him make his claim!¹

Let him announce it and explain it to me –

since I established an ancient people – ²

let them announce future events!³

Yesaya 64:7

64:7 No one invokes⁴ your name,

or makes an effort⁵ to take hold of you.

For you have rejected us⁶

and handed us over to our own sins.⁷

The Lord Will Distinguish Between Sinners and the Godly

65:1 “I made myself available to those who did not ask for me;⁸

I appeared to those who did not look for me.⁹

I said, ‘Here I am! Here I am!’

to a nation that did not invoke¹⁰ my name.