Isaiah 45:15-18

There is nothing above our God. No man, no created thing! 

We must be very careful  not to idolize anyone or anything above Him…He will not and should not share His glory. Money, fame and power are not everlasting... the triune Godhead is. Choose wisely who you will serve!

God created all…Trust only Him.

God exchanged Egypt, Cush, and Seba as the price to redeem Israel. Now the nations are depicted as willfully subjecting themselves to the rule of Jerusalem and Yahweh. The foreign nations echo what Yahweh declared finally agreeing that He is the only true God. In contrast to the certainty that accompanies trust in Yahweh, following idols simply leads to more confusion and uncertainty. Yahweh’s power as manifested in creation supports the assertion that He alone is God.The statement that Yahweh intended the world for inhabitants gives a purpose behind His act of creation—He did not create without a master plan. Faithlife Bible.

God hides Himself in His wrath, but He reveals Himself in the Scriptures. The Lord created the earth to be inhabited, not to be desolate, as the Assyrians and Babylonians had left the land of Israel. NKJ Bible.

Isaiah 45:15-18

15 Truly You are God, who hide Yourself,

O God of Israel, the Savior!

16 They shall be ashamed

And also disgraced, all of them;

They shall go in confusion together,

Who are makers of idols.

17 But Israel shall be saved by the Lord

With an everlasting salvation;

You shall not be ashamed or disgraced

Forever and ever.

18 For thus says the Lord,

Who created the heavens,

Who is God,

Who formed the earth and made it,

Who has established it,

Who did not create it in vain,

Who formed it to be inhabited:

“I am the Lord, and there is no other.

Genesis 1:26 | Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Psalm 115:16 | The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD’s; But the earth He has given to the children of men.

Isaiah 26:4 | Trust in the LORD forever, For in YAH, the LORD, is everlasting strength.

woe (Heb. hoy) Jer. 23:1) Strong’s #1945: This interjection was primarily used by the prophets at the opening of a section where the evil practices of a particular person or group was denounced (Jer. 23:1).