16. They shall be ashamed and also humiliated, all of them;the craftsmen of idols shall go away in confusion together,
17. but Israel shall be saved by the Lordwith an everlasting salvation;you shall not be ashamed nor humiliatedto all eternity.
18. For thus says the Lord,who created the heavens,who is God,who formed the earth and made it,who has established it,who did not create it in vain,who formed it to be inhabited:I am the Lord,and there is no other.
19. I have not spoken in secretin a dark place of the earth;I did not say to the descendants of Jacob,“Seek Me in a waste place”;I, the Lord, speak righteousness;I declare things that are right.
20. Assemble yourselves and come;draw near together, you fugitives of the nations.They have no knowledge who set up the wood of their carved image,and pray to a god that cannot save.
21. Declare and set forth your case;let them take counsel together.Who has declared this from ancient times?Who has told it from that time?Have not I, the Lord?And there is no God besides Me,a righteous God and Savior;there is no other besides Me.
22. Turn to Me and be saved,all the ends of the earth.For I am God, and there is no other.
23. I have sworn by Myself,the word has gone out of My mouth in righteousnessand shall not return,that to Me every knee shall bow,every tongue shall take an oath.