Isaiah 45:18

Creation God's power and sovereignty Truth and honesty

¹⁶ They will all be put to shame and humiliated; the makers of idols will depart together in disgrace.

¹⁷ But Israel will be saved by the LORD with an everlasting salvation; you will not be put to shame or humiliated, to ages everlasting.

For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens—He is God; He formed the earth and fashioned it; He established it; He did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited: “I am the LORD, and there is no other.

¹⁹ I have not spoken in secret, from a place in a land of darkness. I did not say to the descendants of Jacob, ‘Seek Me in a wasteland.’ I, the LORD, speak the truth; I say what is right.

²⁰ Come, gather together, and draw near, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry idols of wood and pray to a god that cannot save.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens—He is God; He formed the earth and fashioned it; He established it; He did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited: “I am the LORD, and there is no other.
KJV: 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.
WEB: For the LORD who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn’t create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited says: “I am the LORD. There is no other.
ASV: For thus saith Jehovah that created the heavens, the God that formed the earth and made it, that established it and created it not a waste, that formed it to be inhabited: I am Jehovah; and there is none else.
DARBY: For thus saith Jehovah who created the heavens, God himself who formed the earth and made it, he who established it, not as waste did he create it: he formed it to be inhabited: I [am] Jehovah, and there is none else.
BLB: For thus says YHWH, the One creating the heavens—He is God—the One forming the earth and making it—He has established it; not as a void did He create it; to be inhabited He formed it: “I [am] YHWH, and there is no other.

ÅB: For så sier Herren, som skapte himmelen, han som er Gud, han som dannet jorden og gjorde den, han som grunnfestet den, han som ikke skapte den til å være øde, men dannet den til bolig for folk: Jeg er Herren, og det er ingen annen.
OTB: For så sier Herren—han som skapte himlene, han er Gud; han som formet og laget jorden, han etablerte den; han skapte den ikke for å være tom, men formet den for å være bebodd—han sier: Jeg er Herren, og det er ingen annen.
B1930: For så sier Herren, som skapte himmelen, han som er Gud, han som dannet jorden og gjorde den, han som grunnfestet den, han som ikke skapte den til å være øde, men dannet den til bolig for folk: Jeg er Herren, og det er ingen annen.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Psalms 115:16
The highest heavens belong to the LORD, but the earth He has given to mankind.
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Jeremiah 10:12
The LORD made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.
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Isaiah 42:5
This is what God the LORD says— He who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its offspring, who gives breath to the people on it and life to those who walk in it:
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Isaiah 45:12
It is I who made the earth and created man upon it. It was My hands that stretched out the heavens, and I ordained all their host.
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Genesis 1:2
Now the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.
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Ezekiel 36:10–12
I will multiply the people upon you—the house of Israel in its entirety. The cities will be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt.
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Genesis 1:26
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”
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Genesis 9:1
And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
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