have escaped from the nations: they have no knowledge who carry the wood of their engraved image, and pray to a god that can't save. 045:021 Declare you, and bring [it] forth; yes, let them take counsel together: who has shown this from ancient time? who has declared it of old? Haven't I, Yahweh? and there is no God else besides me, a just God and a Savior; there is no one besides me. 045:022 Look to me, and be you saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is none else. 045:023 By myself have I sworn, the word is gone forth from my mouth [in] righteousness, and shall not return, that to me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. 045:024 Only in Yahweh, it is said of me, is righteousness and strength; even to him shall men come; and all those who were incensed against him shall be disappointed. 045:025 In Yahweh shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory. 046:001 Bel bows down, Nebo stoops; their idols are on the animals, and on the livestock: the things that you carried about are made a load, a burden to the weary [animal]. 046:002 They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity. 046:003 Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been borne [by me] from their birth, that have been carried from the womb; 046:004 and even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs will I carry you. I have made, and I will bear; yes, I will carry, and will deliver. 046:005 To whom will you liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like? 046:006 Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down--yes, they worship. 046:007 They bear it on the shoulder, they carry it, and set it in its place, and it stands, from its place it shall not move: yes, one may cry to it, yet it can not answer, nor save him out of his trouble. 046:008 Remember this, and show yourselves men; bring it again to mind, you transgressors. 046:009 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; [I am] God, and there is none like me; 046:010 declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not [yet] done; saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure; 046:011 calling 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 purposed, I will also do it. 046:012 Listen to me, you stout-hearted, who are far from righteousness: 046:013 I bring near my righteousness, it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not wait; and I will place salvation