Isaiah 45 — The Holy Bible

Isaiah 45, verse 1. Thus says the Lord God to Cyrus, My anointed, whose right hand I hold that nations might be obedient before him, and I will break the strength of kings: I will open doors before him, and the cities will not be closed. Isaiah 45, verse 2. “I will go before you and level mountains; I will break in pieces the gates of bronze and shatter the bars of iron. Isaiah 45, verse 3. I will give you the treasures of darkness, and I shall open unseen secret things to you, so you may know I, the Lord God, who call you by your name, am the God of Israel. Isaiah 45, verse 4. For Jacob My servant's sake, and Israel My elect, I will call you by your name; I will accept you, though you have not known Me. Isaiah 45, verse 5. For I am the Lord God. There is no God besides Me, and you have not known Me. Isaiah 45, verse 6. I will call you by name and accept you, so those who come from the east and the west may know there is none besides Me. I am the Lord God, and there is no other. Isaiah 45, verse 7. I am He who prepared light and made darkness, who makes peace and creates troublesome things. I am the Lord God who does all these things. Isaiah 45, verse 8. Let heaven above be glad, and let the clouds sprinkle righteousness. Let the earth bring forth mercy and righteousness together. I am the Lord who created you. Isaiah 45, verse 9. “As the clay of a potter, what better thing have I created? Will the one plowing plow all day? Shall the clay say to the potter who forms it, ‘What are you making, for you neither work nor have hands?’ Isaiah 45, verse 10. As though one should say to his father, ‘What will you beget?’ Or to his mother, ‘What will you bring forth?’” Isaiah 45, verse 11. Thus says the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, who made the things that are to come: “Ask Me concerning My sons and daughters; and command Me concerning the works of My hands. Isaiah 45, verse 12. I made the earth and mankind upon it. With My hand I established heaven and commanded all the stars. Isaiah 45, verse 13. I raised him up to be a king with righteousness, and all his ways are right. He shall build My city and return the captivity of My people, not with ransoms or gifts,” says the Lord of hosts. Isaiah 45, verse 14. Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Egypt labored for you, and the merchandise of the Ethiopians and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall pass over to you. They shall be your servants and follow behind you, bound with handcuffs. They shall bow down and make supplication to you, because God is with you; and they shall say, ‘There is no God besides You. Isaiah 45, verse 15. For You are God, the God of Israel, the Savior, yet we knew it not.’ Isaiah 45, verse 16. All who oppose him shall be ashamed and disgraced and shall walk in shame. Be restored to Me, O coastlands. Isaiah 45, verse 17. Israel is saved by the Lord with an everlasting salvation. They will not be ashamed or disgraced forever.” Isaiah 45, verse 18. For thus says the Lord, who made heaven—this is the God who formed the earth and made it. He established it, and did not make it in vain, but formed it to be inhabited—“I Am, and there is no other. Isaiah 45, verse 19. I have not spoken in secret, nor in a dark place of the earth. I did not say to the seed of Jacob, ‘Seek Me in vain.’ I Am, I am the Lord who speaks righteousness and declares the truth. Isaiah 45, verse 20. Assemble yourselves and come. Take counsel together, you who are saved from among the nations. Those who set up the wood of their carved image have no knowledge, and pray to gods who do not save. Isaiah 45, verse 21. If they will declare, let them draw near, so as to know together who caused these things to be heard from the beginning. At that time it was told you, ‘I am God, and there is no other besides Me; there is no righteous God and Savior in addition to Me.’ Isaiah 45, verse 22. Return to Me, and you shall be saved, you who are from the ends of the earth. For I am God, and there is no other. Isaiah 45, verse 23. I swore by Myself: righteousness will truly proceed from my mouth; My words shall not be turned away, that to Me every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess to God, Isaiah 45, verse 24. saying, ‘Righteousness and glory shall come to Him, and all who separate themselves from Him shall be put to shame.’ Isaiah 45, verse 25. All the seed of the children of Israel shall be made righteous by the Lord, and glorified in God.”