Isaiah 45:21

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.

There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.

so is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.

The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

Yahweh’s works are great, pondered by all those who delight in them.

The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a besieged city.

Behold, Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of the earth, “Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold, your salvation comes! Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him!’ ”

Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

Set up a banner on the bare mountain! Lift up your voice to them! Wave your hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.

Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh, and said, “I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. He has thrown the horse and his rider into the sea.

I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.

For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people. He crowns the humble with salvation.

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

Yes, since the day was, I am he. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?”

Bel bows down. Nebo stoops. Their idols are carried by animals, and on the livestock. The things that you carried around are heavy loads, a burden for the weary.

But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.

I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.

Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.

Yahweh has taken away your judgments. He has thrown out your enemy. The King of Israel, Yahweh, is among you. You will not be afraid of evil any more.

But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!”

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken,

In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath,

As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

Yahweh reigns! He is clothed with majesty! Yahweh is armed with strength. The world also is established. It can’t be moved.

Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs.” He answered, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground.

Who is like me? Who will call, and will declare it, and set it in order for me, since I established the ancient people? Let them declare the things that are coming, and that will happen.

Don’t fear, neither be afraid. Haven’t I declared it to you long ago, and shown it? You are my witnesses. Is there a God besides me? Indeed, there is not. I don’t know any other Rock.”

I call a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. Yes, I have spoken. I will also bring it to pass. I have planned. I will also do it.

Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am Yahweh; and those who wait for me shall not be disappointed.”

Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.”

They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness.

“Yet I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt; and you shall acknowledge no god but me, and besides me there is no savior.

Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion; for, behold, I come, and I will dwell within you,’ says Yahweh.

“Don’t be afraid, daughter of Zion. Behold, your King comes, sitting on a donkey’s colt.”

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.

“I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

For you have armed me with strength to the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

Whatever Yahweh pleased, that he has done, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps.

Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his loving kindness.

Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”

For Yahweh is our judge. Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our king. He will save us.

“Let them announce and declare to us what will happen! Declare the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or show us things to come.

God Yahweh, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it, says:

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.

If Yahweh delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us: a land which flows with milk and honey.

Oh let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you will judge the peoples with equity, and govern the nations on earth.

The heavens are Yahweh’s heavens, but he has given the earth to the children of men.

You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away, and the whirlwind will scatter them. You will rejoice in Yahweh. You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.

Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the peoples be assembled. Who among them can declare this, and show us former things? Let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified, or let them hear, and say, “That is true.”

I myself am Yahweh. Besides me, there is no savior.

I am Yahweh, and there is no one else. Besides me, there is no God. I will strengthen you, though you have not known me,

Most certainly you are a God who has hidden yourself, God of Israel, the Savior.’ ”

Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and will say, “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, vanity and things in which there is no profit.

Therefore behold, the days come that I will execute judgment on the engraved images of Babylon; and her whole land will be confounded. All her slain will fall in the middle of her.

All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, “What are you doing?”

And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed. So he will fall down on his face and worship God, declaring that God is among you indeed.

They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.

For I am Yahweh your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I have given Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place.

“Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.

“Assemble yourselves, all of you, and hear! Who among them has declared these things? He whom Yahweh loves will do what he likes to Babylon, and his arm will be against the Chaldeans.

You hope of Israel, its Savior in the time of trouble, why should you be as a foreigner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay for a night?

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

They cried with a loud voice, saying, “Salvation be to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”

For who is God, besides Yahweh? Who is a rock, besides our God?

We can’t reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.

that I may make the voice of thanksgiving to be heard and tell of all your wondrous deeds.

You are awesome, God, in your sanctuaries. The God of Israel gives strength and power to his people. Praise be to God!

Say among the nations, “Yahweh reigns.” The world is also established. It can’t be moved. He will judge the peoples with equity.

They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt,

Yahweh is Gracious and righteous. Yes, our God is merciful.

Yahweh is righteous in all his ways, and gracious in all his works.

Who has declared it from the beginning, that we may know? and before, that we may say, ‘He is right?’ Surely, there is no one who declares. Surely, there is no one who shows. Surely, there is no one who hears your words.

Yahweh says: “The labor of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature, will come over to you, and they will be yours. They will go after you. They shall come over in chains. They will bow down to you. They will make supplication to you: ‘Surely God is in you; and there is no one else. There is no other god.

For Yahweh 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 Yahweh. There is no other.

All the offspring of Israel will be justified in Yahweh, and will rejoice!

I have declared the former things from of old. Yes, they went out of my mouth, and I revealed them. I did them suddenly, and they happened.

Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? Who is this who is glorious in his clothing, marching in the greatness of his strength? “It is I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.”

“Declare among the nations and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and don’t conceal: say, ‘Babylon has been taken, Bel is disappointed, Merodach is dismayed! Her images are disappointed. Her idols are dismayed.’

Yahweh, within her, is righteous. He will do no wrong. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He doesn’t fail, but the unjust know no shame.

Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.

Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

Go quickly and tell his disciples, ‘He has risen from the dead, and behold, he goes before you into Galilee; there you will see him.’ Behold, I have told you.”

that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn’t honor the Son doesn’t honor the Father who sent him.

Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.

God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.

From this man’s offspring, God has brought salvation to Israel according to his promise,

“All of God’s works are known to him from eternity.

We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.

to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the commandment of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ our hope;

For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,

but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.

but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;

to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen.

I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it is called Faithful and True. In righteousness he judges and makes war.