Yahweh the Only Savior

• 14 Thus says Yahweh: “The acquisition of Egypt
• and the merchandise of Cush
  • and the Sabeans, tall men,
• shall pass over to you;
  • they shall be yours,
• and they shall walk behind you.
  • They shall pass over in chains,
• and they shall bow down to you;
  • they will pray to you:
• ‘Surely God is with you, and there is no other.
  • Besides him there is no God.’ ”
  • 15 Surely you are a God who keeps yourself hidden, God of Israel, the savior.
  • 16 All of them are ashamed and indeed humiliated; the craftsmen of idols go together in insult.
  • 17 Israel is saved by Yahweh with everlasting salvation; you shall not be ashamed,
  • and you shall not be humiliated to all eternity .[fn]
  • 18 For thus says Yahweh, who created[fn] the heavens, he is God, who formed[fn] the earth
• and who made[fn] it.
  • He himself established it;
• he did not create it as emptiness—
  • he formed it for inhabiting.

“I am Yahweh and there is none besides me.

• 19 I have spoken not in secrecy, in a place, a land, of darkness, I have not said to the descendants of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain !’[fn]
• I, Yahweh, am speaking righteousness,
  • declaring uprightness.
  • 20 Assemble and come; draw near together, survivors of the nations!
  • They do not know, those who carry their wooden idols[fn]
  • and pray to a god who cannot save.
  • 21 Declare and present your case, also let them consult together!
• Who made this known[fn] from former times ,[fn]
  • declared it from of old ?[fn]
• Was it not I, Yahweh?
  • And there is no other god besides me,
• a righteous God besides me,
  • and no savior besides me.
  • 22 Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am God and there is none besides me.
  • 23 I have sworn by myself; a word that[fn] shall not return has gone forth from my mouth in righteousness:
• ‘Every knee shall kneel down to me;
  • every tongue shall swear.’
  • 24 ‘Only in Yahweh,’ one shall say to me, ‘ are righteousness and strength.’ He shall come to him, and all those who were angry with him shall be ashamed.
  • 25 In Yahweh all the offspring of Israel shall be in the right, and they shall boast.”