“Assemble yourselves!
Come together!
You survivors of the nations!
They have no knowledge.
They carry about their wooden idols.
They keep on praying to a god
That cannot save.
Declare!
Present your case!
Let them take counsel together!
Who told this long ago?
Who declared it of old?
Was it not I?
Yahweh?
There is no other god besides me.
I am a righteous God!
I am a Savior!
There is no one besides me.”
Next Second Isaiah has Yahweh proclaim to all the nations that he is the only God. Yahweh wanted all the survivors of the various nations to assemble and come together. They were stupid, since they carry around their wooden idols. They pray to these wooden idols that cannot save them. Let them make their case and counsel together. Who was able to tell about things long ago before they actually happened? Only Yahweh was able to do that. There is no other god besides Yahweh, who is a righteous God who saves. Yahweh defends himself against all these other gods.
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