Text -- Isaiah 45:18 (NET)

45:18 For this is what the Lord says, the one who created the sky– he is the true God, the one who formed the earth and made it; he established it, he did not create it without order, he formed it to be inhabited– “I am the Lord, I have no peer.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Isa 45:18

¹ tn Heb “he [is] the God.” The article here indicates uniqueness.

² tn Or “unformed.” Gen 1:2 describes the world as “unformed” (תֹהוּ, tohu) prior to God’s creative work, but God then formed the world and made it fit for habitation.