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"Gather yourselves and come;Draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations;They do not know,Who carry about their graven image of woodAnd pray to a god who cannot save.

Declare and draw near with your case;Indeed, let them consult together.Who has made this heard from of old?Who has long since declared it?Is it not I, Yahweh?And there is no other God besides Me,A righteous God and a Savior;There is none except Me.

Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth;For I am God, and there is no other.

Those who lavish gold from the purseAnd weigh silver on the scale,They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it into a god;They fall down, indeed they worship it.

Remember the former things long past,For I am God, and there is no other;I am God, and there is no one like Me,

"Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name IsraelAnd who came forth from the loins of Judah,Who swear by the name of YahwehAnd bring to remembrance the God of Israel,But not in truth or in righteousness.

For they call themselves after the holy cityAnd are supported by the God of Israel;Yahweh of hosts is His name.

Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel,"I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit,Who leads you in the way you should go.

But I said, "I have toiled in vain;I have spent My might for nothing and vanity;Yet surely the justice due to Me is with Yahweh,And My reward with My God."

So now says Yahweh, who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant,To return Jacob back to Him, so that Israel might be gathered to Him(For I am glorified in the sight of Yahweh,And My God is My strength),

Who is among you that fears Yahweh,That listens to the voice of His Servant,That walks in darkness and has no light?Let him trust in the name of Yahweh and rely on his God.

For I am Yahweh your God, who stirs up the sea, and its waves roar—Yahweh of hosts is His name.

Your sons have fainted;They lie helpless at the head of every street,Like an antelope in a net,Full of the wrath of Yahweh,The rebuke of your God.

How lovely on the mountainsAre the feet of him who proclaims good news,Who announces peaceAnd proclaims good news of good things,Who announces salvation,And says to Zion, "Your God reigns!"

Yahweh has bared His holy armIn the sight of all the nations,That all the ends of the earth may seeThe salvation of our God.

But you will not go out in haste,Nor will you go as those who flee;For Yahweh will go before you,And the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

Surely our griefs He Himself bore,And our sorrows He carried;Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken,Smitten of God, and afflicted.

For your husband is your Maker,Whose name is Yahweh of hosts;And your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel,Who is called the God of all the earth.

For Yahweh has called you,Like a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit,Even like a wife of one's youth when she is rejected,"Says your God.

Behold, you will call a nation you do not know,And a nation which knows you not will run to you,Because of Yahweh your God, even the Holy One of Israel;For He has adorned you with beautiful glory."