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This is what the LORD says: "The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush And the Sabeans, men of stature, Will come over to you and will be yours; They will walk behind you, they will come over in chains And will bow down to you; They will plead with you: 'God certainly is with you, and there is no one else, No other God.'"

Thus saith the Lord , The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall come after thee; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down unto thee, they shall make supplication unto thee, saying, Surely God is in thee; and there is none else, there is no God.

Truly, You are a God who hides Himself, God of Israel, Savior!

Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour.

They will be put to shame and even humiliated, all of them; The manufacturers of idols will go away together in humiliation.

They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.

Israel has been saved by the LORD With an everlasting salvation; You will not be put to shame or humiliated To all eternity.

But Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.

For this is what the LORD says, He who created the heavens (He is the God who formed the earth and made it, He established it and did not create it as a waste place, but formed it to be inhabited): "I am the LORD, and there is no one else.

For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord ; and there is none else.

"I have not spoken in secret, In some dark land; I did not say to the offspring of Jacob, 'Seek Me in a wasteland'; I, the LORD, speak righteousness, Declaring things that are right.

I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the Lord speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.

"Gather yourselves and come; Come together, you survivors of the nations! They have no knowledge, Who carry around their wooden idol And pray to a god who cannot save.

Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.

"Declare and present your case; Indeed, let them consult together. Who has announced this long ago? Who has long since declared it? Is it not I, the LORD? And there is no other God besides Me, A righteous God and a Savior; There is none except Me.

Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the Lord ? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.

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

Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.

"I have sworn by Myself; The word has gone out from My mouth in righteousness And will not turn back, That to Me every knee will bow, every tongue will swear allegiance.

I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.

"They will say of Me, 'Only in the LORD are righteousness and strength.' People will come to Him, And all who were angry at Him will be put to shame.

Surely, shall one say, in the Lord have I righteousness and strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed.

"In the LORD all the offspring of Israel Will be justified and will boast."

In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.