19 I have not spoken in secret, in some hidden place. I did not tell Jacob’s descendants, ‘Seek me in vain!’ I am the Lord, the one who speaks honestly, who makes reliable announcements. 20 Gather together and come! Approach together, you refugees from the nations. Those who carry wooden idols know nothing, those who pray to a god that cannot deliver. 21 Tell me! Present the evidence! Let them consult with one another. Who predicted this in the past? Who announced it beforehand? Was it not I, the Lord? I have no peer, there is no God but me,a God who vindicates and delivers; there is none but me.

19 I have not spoken in secret nor in a dark place of the earth; I did not say to the offspring of Iakob, “Seek a vain thing.” I am, I am the Lord, speaking righteousness and declaring truth. 20 Assemble yourselves, and come; take counsel together, you who are being saved from among the nations! They did not know— those who lift up the wood, their graven image, and pray as if to gods that do not save. 21 If they will declare it, let them draw near so that they may know together who made from the beginning these things that are to be heard. Then it was declared to you, I am God, and there is no other besides me; there is no righteous one or savior except me.