Isaiah 45:18-20

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹⁸ For this is what the Lord says –
the Creator of the heavens,
the God who formed the earth and made it,
the one who established it
(he did not create it to be a wasteland,
but formed it to be inhabited)^(A) –
he says, ‘I am the Lord,
and there is no other.
¹⁹ I have not spoken in secret,^(B)
somewhere in a land of darkness.
I did not say to the descendants of Jacob:
Seek me in a wasteland.^(C)
I am the Lord, who speaks righteously,^(D)
who declares what is right.

²⁰ ‘Come, gather together,
and approach, you fugitives of the nations.
Those who carry their wooden idols
and pray to a god who cannot save^(E)
have no knowledge.^(F)