15 Truly You are God, awho hide Yourself, O God of Israel, the Savior!
16 They shall be aashamed And also disgraced, all of them; They shall go in confusion together, Whoare makers of idols.
17aBut Israel shall be saved by the Lord With an beverlasting salvation; You shall not be ashamed or cdisgraced Forever and ever.
18 For thus says the Lord, aWho created the heavens, Who is God, Who formed the earth and made it, Who has established it, Who did not create it1 in vain, Who formed it to be binhabited: c“I am the Lord, and thereis no other.
19 I have not spoken in asecret, In a dark place of the earth; I did not say to the seed of Jacob, ‘Seek Me1 in vain’; bI, the Lord, speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
20 “Assemble yourselves and come; Draw near together, You whohave escaped from the nations. aThey have no knowledge, Who carry the wood of their carved image, And pray to a god that cannot save.
21 Tell and bring forth yourcase; Yes, let them take counsel together. aWho has declared this from ancient time? Who has told it from that time? Have not I, the Lord? bAnd thereis no other God besides Me, A just God and a Savior; Thereis none besides Me.
22 “Look to Me, and be saved, aAll you ends of the earth! For I am God, and thereis no other.
23aI have sworn by Myself; The word has gone out of My mouth in righteousness, And shall not return, That to Me every bknee shall bow, cEvery tongue shall take an oath.
24 He shall say, 1‘Surely in the Lord I have arighteousness and strength. To Him men shall come, And ball shall be ashamed Who are incensed against Him.
in the Lord— (Isaiah 45:24-25), contrasted with the idols which cannot give even temporary help (Isaiah 45:16); in Jehovah there is everlasting salvation (Isaiah 26:4).
not . . . ashamed—opposed to the doom of the idolaters, who, in the hour of need, shall be "ashamed" (see on Isaiah 45:16).
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