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Don't be frightened, don't be afraid — Didn't I tell you this long ago? I foretold it, and you are my witnesses. Is there any God besides me? There is no other Rock — I know of none."

Who would fashion a god or cast an image that profits no one anything?

In time, when it's ready for use as fuel, he takes some of it to keep himself warm and burns some more to bake bread. Then he makes a god and worships it, carves it into an idol and falls down before it.

With the rest of the log he fashions a god, a carved image, then falls down before it; he worships it and prays to it. "Save me," he says, "for you are my god!"

I will give you treasures hoarded in the dark, secret riches hidden away, so that you will know that I, Adonai , calling you by your name, am the God of Isra'el.

I am Adonai ; there is no other; besides me there is no God. I am arming you, although you don't know me,

Here is what Adonai says: "The earnings of Egypt, the commerce of Ethiopia, and men of stature from S'va will come over to you and become yours; they will come in chains and follow you. They will prostrate themselves before you; they will pray to you: ‘Surely God is with you; there is no other, other gods are nothing.'"

Truly, you are a God who hides himself, God of Isra'el, Savior!

For thus says Adonai , who created the heavens, God, who shaped and made the earth, who established and created it not to be chaos, but formed it to be lived in: "I am Adonai ; there is no other.

Assemble, come and gather together, you refugees from the nations! Those carrying their wooden idols are ignorant, they pray to a god that cannot save.

Let them stand and present their case! Indeed, let them take counsel together. Who foretold this long ago, announced it in times gone by? Wasn't it I, Adonai ? There is no other God besides me, a just God and a Savior; there is none besides me.

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

They squander the gold from their bags and weigh silver on a scale; they hire a goldsmith to make a god, before which they fall down and worship!

"Remember things that happened at the beginning, long ago — that I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me.

Listen to this, house of Ya‘akov, called by the name of Isra'el, who have come from the spring of Y'hudah, who swear by the name of Adonai and invoke the God of Isra'el! — it is not sincerely or justifiably

that they call themselves people of the holy city or rely on the God of Isra'el — Adonai -Tzva'ot is his name:

Thus says Adonai , your Redeemer, the Holy One of Isra'el: "I am Adonai , your God, who teaches you for your own good, who guides you on the path you should take.

But I said, "I have toiled in vain, spent my strength for nothing, futility." Yet my cause is with Adonai , my reward is with my God.

So now Adonai says — he formed me in the womb to be his servant, to bring Ya‘akov back to him, to have Isra'el gathered to him, so that I will be honored in the sight of Adonai , my God having become my strength —

Who among you fears Adonai ? Who obeys what his servant says? Even when he walks in the dark, without any light, he will trust in Adonai 's reputation and rely on his God.