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I am Yahweh, and there is no other;Besides Me there is no God.I will gird you, though you have not known Me,

That they may know from the rising to the setting of the sunThat there is no one besides Me.I am Yahweh, and there is no other,

The One forming light and creating darkness,Producing peace and creating calamity;I am Yahweh who does all these.

For thus says Yahweh, who created the heavens (He is the God who formed the earth and made it; He established it and did not create it a formless place, but formed it to be inhabited),"I am Yahweh, and there is none else.

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

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,

"So now, hear this, you sensual one,Who sits securely,Who says in your heart,‘I am, and there is no one besides me.I will not sit as a widow,Nor know loss of children.'

You felt secure in your evil and said,‘No one sees me,'Your wisdom and your knowledge have turned you astray;So you have said in your heart,‘I am, and there is no one besides me.'

"Hear Me, O Jacob, even Israel whom I called;I am He, I am the first, I am also the last.

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.

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),

Then you will say in your heart,‘Who has borne these for me?Indeed, I have been bereaved of my childrenAnd am barren, an exile and a wanderer.And who has reared these?Behold, I remained alone;From where did these come?'"

Kings will be your guardians,And their princesses your nurses.They will bow down to you with their faces to the earthAnd lick the dust of your feet;And you will know that I am Yahweh;Those who hope in Me will not be put to shame.

I will feed those who mistreat you with their own flesh,And they will become drunk with their own blood as with sweet wine;And all flesh will know that I, Yahweh, am your SaviorAnd your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob."

Even now Lord Yahweh helps Me,Therefore, I am not dishonored;Therefore, I have set My face like flint,And I know that I will not be ashamed.

"I, even I, am He who comforts you.Who are you that you are afraid of man who diesAnd of the son of man who is made like grass,

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

Therefore My people shall know My name; therefore in that day I am the one who is speaking, ‘Here I am.'"

Let not the foreigner who has joined himself to Yahweh say,"Yahweh will surely separate me from His people."Nor let the eunuch say, "Behold, I am a dry tree."

Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer;You will cry, and He will say, ‘Here I am.'If you remove the yoke from your midst,The pointing of the finger and speaking wickedness,