Isaiah 45:18

WEB

¹⁸For the LORD who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn’t create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited says: “I am the LORD. There is no other.

KJV

¹⁸For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.

BSB

¹⁸For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens—He is God; He formed the earth and fashioned it; He established it; He did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited: “I am the LORD, and there is no other.

FBV

¹⁸For this is what the Lord says, the God who created the heavens, who formed and made the earth, he founded it. He didn't make it to be left empty, but formed it to be inhabited. He is the one who says, I am the Lord, and there is no God apart from me.

Extra References

Psalms 115:16

¹⁶The heavens are the LORD’s heavens, but he has given the earth to the children of men.

Jeremiah 10:12

¹²God has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens.

Isaiah 42:5

⁵God the LORD, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it, says:

Isaiah 45:12

¹²I have made the earth, and created man on it. I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens. I have commanded all their army.

Genesis 1:2

²The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

Ezekiel 36:10-12

¹⁰I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, even all of it. The cities will be inhabited and the waste places will be built. ¹¹I will multiply man and animal on you. They will increase and be fruitful. I will cause you to be inhabited as you were before, and you will do better than at your beginnings. Then you will know that I am the LORD. ¹²Yes, I will cause men to walk on you, even my people Israel. They will possess you, and you will be their inheritance, and you will never again bereave them of their children.”

Genesis 1:26

²⁶God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Genesis 1:28

²⁸God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Genesis 9:1

¹God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth.

Isaiah 45:5-6

⁵I am the LORD, and there is no one else. Besides me, there is no God. I will strengthen^[+] you, though you have not known me, ⁶that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is no one besides me. I am the LORD, and there is no one else.