Charles Spurgeon Commentary Isaiah 45:20-21

"Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that carry the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save. Declare ye, and bring [it] forth; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath showed this from ancient time? who hath declared it of old? have not I, Jehovah? and there is no God else besides me, a just God and a Saviour; there is none besides me." — Isaiah 45:20-21 (ASV)

Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.

Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together:

What wooden god has ever foretold the future? What idol of brass or stone had a word to say about the coming of Cyrus? Not one.

Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.

You tell, and bring them near, yea, let them take counsel together: who has declared this from ancient time? who has told it from that time? have not I the LORD?

He challenges all the idols to prove that they had uttered any true prophecy—that they had spoken about Cyrus, or anybody else, from ancient times, so that the prophecy was literally fulfilled.

There were dark double-meaning oracles, with which the false priests mocked their worshippers, but the true words of God—his ancient prophecies—proved him to be the only real and true God.