Isaiah 45:20-21

45:20 Gather together and come!

Approach together, you refugees from the nations!

Those who carry wooden idols know nothing,

those who pray to a god that cannot deliver.

45:21 Tell me! Present the evidence!

Let them consult with one another!

Who predicted this in the past?

Who announced it beforehand?

Was it not I, the Lord?

I have no peer, there is no God but me,

a God who vindicates and delivers;

there is none but me.


tn Heb “Declare! Bring near!”; NASB “Declare and set forth your case.” See 41:21.

tn Or “a righteous God and deliverer”; NASB, NIV, NRSV “a righteous God and a Savior.”