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Isaiah 45:18
New American Bible (Revised Edition)

18     For thus says the Lord,
The creator of the heavens,
    who is God,
The designer and maker of the earth
    who established it,
Not as an empty waste[a] did he create it,
    but designing it to be lived in:
I am the Lord, and there is no other.

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Footnotes

  1. 45:18 Empty waste: an allusion to Gn 1:2, where the earth is waste and void; the same Hebrew word, tohu, is used in both passages. Here it points to devastated Judah and Jerusalem, where God wishes to resettle the returning exiles.
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