Isaiah 45

1“Cyrus is my anointed king.

I take hold of his right hand.

I give him the power

to bring nations under his control.

I help him strip kings of their power

to go to war against him.

I break city gates open so he can go through them.

I say to him,

2‘I will march out ahead of you.

I will make the mountains level.

I will break down bronze gates.

I will cut through their heavy iron bars.

3I will give you treasures that are hidden away.

I will give you riches that are stored up in secret places.

Then you will know that I am the Lord.

I am the God of Israel.

I am sending for you by name.

4Cyrus, I am sending for you by name.

I am doing it for the good of the family of Jacob.

They are my servant.

I am doing it for Israel.

They are my chosen people.

You do not know anything about me.

But I am giving you a title of honor.

5I am the Lord. There is no other Lord.

I am the one and only God.

You do not know anything about me.

But I will make you strong.

6Then people will know there is no God but me.

Everyone from where the sun rises in the east

to where it sets in the west will know it.

I am the Lord.

There is no other Lord.

7I cause light to shine. I also create darkness.

I bring good times. I also create hard times.

I do all these things. I am the Lord.

8“ ‘Rain down my godliness, you heavens above.

Let the clouds shower it down.

Let the earth open wide to receive it.

Let freedom spring to life.

Let godliness grow richly along with it.

I have created all these things.

I am the Lord.’ ”

9How terrible it will be for anyone who argues with their Maker!

They are like a broken piece of pottery lying on the ground.

Does clay say to a potter,

“What are you making?”

Does a pot say,

“The potter doesn’t have any skill”?

10How terrible it will be for anyone who says to a father,

“Why did you give me life?”

How terrible for anyone who says to a mother,

“Why have you brought me into the world?”

11The Lord is the Holy One of Israel.

He made them.

He says to them,

“Are you asking me about what will happen to my children?

Are you telling me what I should do with what my hands have made?

12I made the earth.

I created human beings to live there.

My own hands spread out the heavens.

I put all the stars in their places.

13I will stir up Cyrus and help him win his battles.

I will make all his roads straight.

He will rebuild Jerusalem.

My people have been taken away from their country.

But he will set them free.

I will not pay him to do it.

He will not receive a reward for it,”

says the Lord who rules over all.

14The Lord says to the people of Jerusalem,

“You will get everything Egypt produces.

You will receive everything the people of Cush

and the tall Sabeans get in trade.

All of it will belong to you.

And all these people will walk behind you as slaves.

They will be put in chains and come over to you.

They will bow down to you.

They will admit,

‘God is with you.

There is no other God.’ ”

15You are a God who has been hiding yourself.

You are the God of Israel. You save us.

16All those who make statues of gods will be put to shame.

They will be dishonored.

They will be led away in shame together.

17But the Lord will save Israel.

He will save them forever.

They will never be put to shame or dishonored.

That will be true for all time to come.

18The Lord created the heavens.

He is God.

He formed the earth and made it.

He set it firmly in place.

He didn’t create it to be empty.

Instead, he formed it for people to live on.

He says, “I am the Lord.

There is no other Lord.

19I have not spoken in secret.

I have not spoken from a dark place.

I have not said to Jacob’s people,

‘It is useless to look for me.’

I am the Lord. I always speak the truth.

I always say what is right.

20“Come together, you people of the nations

who escaped from Babylon.

Gather together and come into court.

Only people who do not know anything

would carry around gods that are made out of wood.

They pray to false gods that can’t save them.

21Tell me what will happen. State your case.

Talk it over together.

Who spoke long ago about what would happen?

Who said it a long time ago?

I did. I am the Lord.

I am the one and only God.

I always do what is right.

I am the one who saves.

There is no God but me.

22“All you who live anywhere on earth,

turn to me and be saved.

I am God. There is no other God.

23I have made a promise in my own name.

I have spoken with complete honesty.

I will not take back a single word. I said,

‘Everyone will kneel down to me.

Everyone’s mouth will make promises in my name.’

24They will say, ‘The Lord is the only one who can save us.

Only he can make us strong.’ ”

All those who have been angry with the Lord will come to him.

And they will be put to shame.

25But the Lord will save all the people of Israel.

And so they will boast about the Lord.

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Isaiah 45

1Yahweh says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held to subdue nations before him and strip kings of their armor, to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:

2“I will go before you

and make the rough places smooth.

I will break the doors of bronze in pieces

and cut apart the bars of iron.

3I will give you the treasures of darkness

and hidden riches of secret places,

that you may know that it is I, Yahweh, who calls you by your name,

even the God of Israel.

4For Jacob my servant’s sake,

and Israel my chosen,

I have called you by your name.

I have given you a title,

though you have not known me.

5I am Yahweh, and there is no one else.

Besides me, there is no God.

I will strengthen#45:5 or, equip 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 Yahweh, and there is no one else.

7I form the light

and create darkness.

I make peace

and create calamity.

I am Yahweh,

who does all these things.

8Rain, you heavens, from above,

and let the skies pour down righteousness.

Let the earth open, that it may produce salvation,

and let it cause righteousness to spring up with it.

I, Yahweh, have created it.

9Woe to him who strives with his Maker—

a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth!

Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’

or your work, ‘He has no hands’?

10Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What have you become the father of?’

or to a mother, ‘What have you given birth to?’”

11Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel

and his Maker says:

“You ask me about the things that are to come, concerning my sons,

and you command me concerning the work of my hands!

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.

13I have raised him up in righteousness,

and I will make all his ways straight.

He shall build my city,

and he shall let my exiles go free,

not for price nor reward,” says Yahweh of Armies.

14Yahweh says: “The labor of Egypt,

and the merchandise of Ethiopia,

and the Sabeans, men of stature, will come over to you,

and they will be yours.

They will go after you.

They shall come over in chains.

They will bow down to you.

They will make supplication to you:

‘Surely God is in you; and there is no one else.

There is no other god.

15Most certainly you are a God who has hidden yourself,

God of Israel, the Savior.’”

16They will be disappointed,

yes, confounded, all of them.

Those who are makers of idols will go into confusion together.

17Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation.

You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.

18For Yahweh 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 Yahweh.

There is no other.

19I have not spoken in secret,

in a place of the land of darkness.

I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’

I, Yahweh, speak righteousness.

I declare things that are right.

20“Assemble yourselves and come.

Draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations.

Those have no knowledge who carry the wood of their engraved image,

and pray to a god that can’t save.

21Declare and present it.

Yes, let them take counsel together.

Who has shown this from ancient time?

Who has declared it of old?

Haven’t I, Yahweh?

There is no other God besides me, a just God and a Savior.

There is no one besides me.

22“Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth;

for I am God, and there is no other.

23I have sworn by myself.

The word has gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and will not be revoked,

that to me every knee shall bow,

every tongue shall take an oath.

24They will say of me,

‘There is righteousness and strength only in Yahweh.’”

Even to him will men come.

All those who raged against him will be disappointed.

25All the offspring of Israel will be justified in Yahweh,

and will rejoice!

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