15. Most certainly you are a God who has hidden yourself,God of Israel, the Saviour.’”
16. They will be disappointed,yes, confounded, all of them.Those who are makers of idols will go into confusion together.
17. Israel will be saved by the Lord with an everlasting salvation.You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.
18. For the Lord who created the heavens,the God who formed the earth and made it,who established it and didn’t create it a waste,who formed it to be inhabited says:“I am the Lord;and there is no other.
19. I have not spoken in secret,in a place of the land of darkness.I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’I, the Lord, speak righteousness.I declare things that are right.
20. “Assemble yourselves and come.Draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations.Those have no knowledge who carry the wood of their engraved image,and pray to a god that can’t save.
21. Declare and present it.Yes, let them take counsel together.Who has shown this from ancient time?Who has declared it of old?Haven’t I, the Lord?There is no other God besides me, a just God and a Saviour;There is no one besides me.