Israel is the Lord’s witness to the world

8 Forth! you folk who have eyes, but are blind;

and you who have ears, yet are deaf.

9 The nations are all assembled,

the peoples are gathered together.

Which of them all can declare such a thing,

or announce to us such in advance?

Let them prove themselves right by the witness they bring,

who will say, when they hear, ‘It is true.’

10 But you are my witnesses – thus says the Lord –

my servants, whom I have chosen,

that they may acknowledge and trust me,

and learn I am ever the same.

No god was formed before me,

and after me will be none.

11 I am the Lord,

and saviour beside me is none.

12 It was I, and no strange god among you,

who announced and declared and delivered.

You are my witnesses – thus says the Lord –

and I am God from of old,

13 from henceforth ever the same.

There is none who can snatch from my hand,

and who can reverse what I do?