21. Declare what is to be, present it –let them take counsel together.Who foretold this long ago,who declared it from the distant past?Was it not I, the Lord?And there is no God apart from me,a righteous God and a Saviour;there is none but me.
22. ‘Turn to me and be saved,all you ends of the earth;for I am God, and there is no other.
23. By myself I have sworn,my mouth has uttered in all integritya word that will not be revoked:before me every knee will bow;by me every tongue will swear.
24. They will say of me, “In the Lord aloneare deliverance and strength.” ’All who have raged against himwill come to him and be put to shame.
25. But all the descendants of Israelwill find deliverance in the Lordand will make their boast in him.