Isaiah 45
1THUS saith the Lord God: For Mine anointed, for Cyrus, (whose right hand I have taken hold of, that nations may listen before him) I will break the power of kings; I will open gates before him, and cities shall not be shut up.
2I will go before thee and level mountains; I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and burst asunder the bars of iron;
3and give thee treasures of darkness—deep, hidden, unseen treasures I will disclose to thee, that thou mayst know, that I, the Lord thy God, Who calleth thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.
4For the sake of My servant Jacob, and of Israel My chosen one, I will call thee by thy name and receive thee kindly. As for thee, thou didst not know Me.
5Because I am the Lord God and there is no God else besides Me; I strengthened thee when thou didst not know Me;
6that they from the risings of the sun and they from its goings down may know, that there is no God besides Me.
7I the Lord am God and there is none else. It was I Who provided light and made darkness; Who make peace and create evils: I the Lord God am He Who doth all these things.
8(c) Let the heaven above be glad; and the clouds shower down righteousness. Let the earth spring and bloom with mercy and let it cause righteousness to spring up with it. I the Lord am He Who created thee.
9Is anything endowed with excellence? I fashioned it like the clay of a potter. Will the ploughman plough the ground all the day long? Will the clay say to the potter, What art thou making? Or the work to the workman, Thou hast not hands. Will the thing formed reply against him who formed it?
10Will one say to his father, What wilt thou beget? Or to his mother, What art thou bringing forth?
11Wherefore thus saith the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, even He Who made the train of events; Do you question Me concerning My children; and concerning the works of My hands give Me directions!
12It was I Who made the earth and man on it: it was I Who with My hand established the heaven: it was I Who gave direction to all the stars.
13It was I Who have raised him up with righteousness to be king; and all his ways shall be straight. He shall rebuild this city of Mine, and send back the captives of this My people, not for ransom nor reward, said the Lord of Hosts.
14Thus saith the Lord of Hosts: That for which Egypt laboured and the traffic of the Ethiopians, and the Sabeans men of tall stature shall come over to thee; and they shall be thy vassals and shall follow thee bound with chains. They will come over to thee and pay thee homage and pray to thee because God is in thee.
14-cThere is indeed no God besides Thee.
15For Thou art God and we knew it. The God of Israel is a Saviour:
16let all that oppose Him be ashamed and confounded and in shame let them march along.
17Dedicate yourselves to Me, ye islands! The Lord hath saved Israel with an everlasting salvation. They shall not be put to shame nor confounded any more forever.
18Thus saith the Lord Who made the heaven, the same God Who displayed the earth to view, and Who, having made it, parcelled it out: He did not make it to be waste, but formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord and there is none else.
19I have not spoken in secret nor in an obscure part of the earth. I have not said to the seed of Jacob, Seek ye a vain thing. I am The I Am, the Lord, Who speak righteousness and proclaim truth.
20Assemble yourselves together and come; consult together ye who escape from among the nations. They are devoid of knowledge, who carry the wood—their carved image; and who pray to gods which cannot save them.
21If they will proclaim, let them draw near and know at once who hath published these things from the beginning: then let them be announced to you. I am God and there is no other besides Me; a just God and a saviour besides Me there is none.
22Turn to Me and ye shall be saved, ye from the farthest part of the earth, I am God and there is none else.
23By Myself I swear (righteousness shall proceed from My mouth; My words shall not be reversed)
24that to Me every knee shall bow and every tongue shall swear, with respect to God, saying, Righteousness and glory shall come to him, and all that make distinctions among them shall be ashamed.
25On account of the Lord they shall be acquitted; and in God all the seed of Israel will glory.