13. I have a right to awaken Cyrus;I will smooth all his paths.He will build my cityand set my exiles free,not for a price and not for a bribe,says the Lord of heavenly forces.
14. The Lord says:Egypt will grow weary, Cush will be sold,and the tall Sabeans will cross over to you.They will be yours, and after you they will go.In chains they will come;to you they will bow down.They will plead with you:"Truly God is with you;there’s no other, no other God."
15. Surely you are a god who hides himself,Israel’s God and savior.
16. They will all be shamed and disgraced;the makers of idols will end up disgraced together.
17. Israel has been saved by the Lord of everlasting salvation.You won’t be shamed,and you won’t be disgraced forever and always.
18. For this is what the Lord said, who created the heavens,who is God,who formed the earth and made it,who established it,who didn’t create it a wasteland but formed it as a habitation:I, the Lord, and none other!
19. I didn’t speak in secretor in some land of darkness;I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob,"Seek me in chaos."I am the Lord, the one who speaks truth,who announces what is correct.
20. Gather and come,draw near together,fugitives of the nations!Those who carry their wooden idols don’t know;those who pray to a god who won’t save.
21. Announce! Approach! Confer together!Who proclaimed this from the beginning, announced it from long ago?Wasn’t it I, the Lord?There’s no other God except me,a righteous God and a savior;there’s none besides me!