They will be put to shame and also humiliated, all of them;
They who make idols will go away together in humiliation.
Israel has been saved by the LORD
With an everlasting salvation;
You will not be put to shame or humiliated
for all eternity. [Heb 5:9]
For the LORD, who created the heavens (He is God, who formed the earth and made it; He established it and did not create it to be a wasteland, but formed it to be inhabited) says this,
“I am the LORD, and there is no one else.
“I have not spoken in secret,
In a corner of a land of darkness;
I did not say to the descendants of Jacob,
‘Seek Me in vain [with no benefit for yourselves].’
I, the LORD, speak righteousness [the truth—trustworthy, a straightforward correlation between deeds and words],
Declaring things that are upright. [John 18:20]
¶“Assemble yourselves and come;
Come together, you survivors of the nations!
They are ignorant,
Who carry around their wooden idols [in religious processions or into battle]
And keep on praying to a god that cannot save them.
“Declare and present your defense of idols;
Indeed, let them consult together.
Who announced this [rise of Cyrus and his conquests] long before it happened?
Who declared it long ago?
Was it not I, the LORD?
And there is no other God besides Me,
A [consistently and uncompromisingly] just and righteous God and a Savior;
There is none except Me.
“Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth;
For I am God, and there is no other.
“I have sworn [an oath] by Myself,
The word is gone out of My mouth in righteousness
And shall not return,
That to Me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear [allegiance]. [Rom 14:11; Phil 2:10, 11; Heb 6:13]
“It shall be said of Me, ‘Only in the LORD are righteousness and strength.’
To Him people will come,
And all who were angry at Him will be put to shame. [1 Cor 1:30, 31]
“In the LORD all the offspring of Israel
Will be justified (declared free of guilt) and will glory [in God].”