Isaiah 45

Thus saith the Lord to ^ahis anointed, to Cyrus,

Whose ^bright hand I have holden,

^cTo subdue nations before him;

And ^dI will loose the loins of kings,

To open before him the two leaved gates;

And the gates shall not be shut;

²I will go before thee,

And ^emake the crooked places straight:

^fI will break in pieces the gates of brass,

^fAnd cut in sunder the bars of iron:

³And I will give thee ^gthe treasures of darkness,

And ^hhidden riches of secret places,

That thou mayest know that I, the Lord, ⁱwhich call thee ^kby thy name, am ^lthe God of Israel.

⁴For ^mJacob my servant’s sake, and ^mIsrael mine elect,

I have even ⁱcalled thee ^kby thy name:

I have ⁿsurnamed thee, though thou hast ^onot known me.

^5pI am the Lord, and ^pthere is none else,

There is no God besides me:

^qI girded thee ^othough thou hast not known me:

^6rThat they may know ^sfrom the rising of the sun, and from the west,

That ^pthere is none besides me.

^pI am the Lord, and there is none else.

⁷I form the light, and ^tcreate darkness:

I make peace, and ^ucreate evil:

I the Lord do all these things.

^8vDrop down, ye heavens, from above,

And ^vlet the skies pour down ^wrighteousness:

Let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation,

And let ^wrighteousness spring up together;

I the Lord have created it.

^9xWoe unto him that ^ystriveth with ^zhis maker!

Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth.

^zShall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou?

Or thy work, He hath no hands?

¹⁰Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou?

Or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?

¹¹Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his maker,

Ask me of ^athings to come concerning ^bmy sons,

And concerning ^cthe work of my hands command ye me.

^12dI have made the earth,

And ^ecreated man upon it:

I, even my hands, ^fhave stretched out the heavens,

And ^gall their host have I commanded.

^13hI have raised him up in righteousness,

And I will direct all his ways:

ⁱHe shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives,

^kNot for price nor reward,

Saith the Lord of hosts.

¹⁴Thus saith the Lord,

^lThe labour of Egypt, and merchandise of ^mEthiopia

And of the ⁿSabeans, ^omen of stature,

Shall come over unto thee, and they shall be thine:

They shall come after thee, ^pin chains they shall come over,

And ^qthey shall fall down unto thee, they shall make supplication unto thee, saying,

^rSurely God is in thee;

And ^sthere is none else, there is no God.

¹⁵Verily thou art a God ^tthat hidest thyself,

O God of Israel, the saviour.

^16uThey shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them:

They shall go to confusion together that are makers of ^vidols.

¹⁷But Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation:

^vvYe shall not be ashamed nor confounded ^wworld without end.

^18xFor 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 ^yin vain, he formed it to be inhabited:

I ^sam the Lord; and there is none else.

^19zI have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth:

I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me ^yin vain:

^aI the Lord speak righteousness, I declare ^bthings that are right.

²⁰Assemble yourselves and come;

Draw near together, ^cye that are escaped of the nations:

^dThey have no knowledge ^ethat set up the wood of their graven image,

And ^fpray unto a god that cannot save.

^21gTell ye, and bring them near;

Yea, let them take counsel together:

^gWho hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it ^hfrom that time?

Have not I the Lord? and ⁱthere is no God else beside me;

A just God and ^ka saviour; ^kthere is none beside me.

²²Look unto me, and ^lbe ye saved, ^lall the ends of the earth:

For ⁱI am God, and there is none else.

^23mnI have sworn by myself,

The word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return,

^mThat unto me ^oevery knee shall bow,

^pEvery tongue shall swear.

²⁴Surely, shall one say, in the Lord have I ^qrighteousness and strength:

Even to him shall men come;

And ^rall that are incensed against him shall be ashamed.

^25qIn the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and ^sshall glory.

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