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    or “Your work has no handles”? 10Woe to anyone who says to a father, “What are you begetting?”     or to a woman, “With what are you in labor?” 11Thus says the Lord,     the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker: Will you question med</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>] about my children,     or command me concerning the work of my hands? 12I made the earth,     and created humankind upon it; it was my hands that stretched out the heavens,     and I commanded all their host. 13I have aroused Cyruse</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>] in righteousness,     and I will make all his paths straight; he shall build my city     and set my exiles free, not for price or reward,     says the Lord of hosts. 14Thus says the Lord: The wealth of Egypt and the merchandise of Ethiopia,f</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote f">f</a>]     and the Sabeans, tall of stature, shall come over to you and be yours,     they shall follow you;     they shall come over in chains and bow down to you. They will make supplication to you, saying,     “God is with you alone, and there is no other;     there is no god besides him.” 15Truly, you are a God who hides himself,     O God of Israel, the Savior. 16All of them are put to shame and confounded,     the makers of idols go in confusion together. 17But Israel is saved by the Lord     with everlasting salvation; you shall not be put to shame or confounded     to all eternity.</div> <div class="poetry top-1">18For thus says the Lord, who created the heavens     (he is God!), who formed the earth and made it     (he established it; he did not create it a chaos,     he formed it to be inhabited!): I am the Lord, and there is no other. 19I did not speak in secret,     in a land of darkness; I did not say to the offspring of Jacob,     “Seek me in chaos.” I the Lord speak the truth,     I declare what is right.</div> <h3>Idols Cannot Save Babylon</h3><div class="poetry">20Assemble yourselves and come together,     draw near, you survivors of the nations! They have no knowledge—     those who carry about their wooden idols, and keep on praying to a god     that cannot save. 21Declare and present your case;     let them take counsel together! Who told this long ago?     Who declared it of old? Was it not I, the Lord?     There is no other god besides me, a righteous God and a Savior;     there is no one besides me.</div> <div class="poetry top-1">22Turn to me and be saved,     all the ends of the earth!     For I am God, and there is no other. 23By myself I have sworn,     from my mouth has gone forth in righteousness     a word that shall not return: “To me every knee shall bow,     every tongue shall swear.”</div> <div class="poetry top-1">24Only in the Lord, it shall be said of me,     are righteousness and strength; all who were incensed against him     shall come to him and be ashamed. 25In the Lord all the offspring of Israel     shall triumph and glory.</div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 45:2">Isaiah 45:2</a> Q Ms Gk: MT the swellings</li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 45:8">Isaiah 45:8</a> Q Ms: MT that they may bring forth salvation</li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 45:9">Isaiah 45:9</a> Cn: Heb with the potsherds, or with the potters</li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 45:11">Isaiah 45:11</a> Cn: Heb Ask me of things to come</li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 45:13">Isaiah 45:13</a> Heb him</li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 45:14">Isaiah 45:14</a> Or Nubia; Heb Cush</li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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