Isaiah 45:18

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¹⁶ They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.

¹⁷ But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.

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.

¹⁹ 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.

²⁰ 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.

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.

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Original text and word study

Cross references

Psalms 115:16
The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD’s: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.
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Jeremiah 10:12
He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
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Isaiah 42:5
Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
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Isaiah 45:12
I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.
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Genesis 1:2
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
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Ezekiel 36:10–12
And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be builded:
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Genesis 1:26
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
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Genesis 9:1
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
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