45:20 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.

22 Turn to me so you can be delivered,

all you who live in the earth’s remote regions!

For I am God, and I have no peer.

23 I solemnly make this oath—

what I say is true and reliable:

‘Surely every knee will bow to me,

every tongue will solemnly affirm;

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