Isaiah 45

1Thus says Yahweh to his anointed one,

to subjugate nations before him,

to open doors before him,

2“I myself will go before you,

I will break the doors of bronze

3And I will give you the treasures of darkness

so that you may know that I am Yahweh,

4for the sake of my servant Jacob,

And I call you by your name;

5I am Yahweh, and there is none besides me;

6so that they may know from the rising of the sun

7I form light and I create darkness;

8Trickle, O heavens, from above,

let the earth open so that salvation may be fruitful,

9Woe to the one who strives with his maker,[#Literally “one who forms”]

Does the clay say to the one who fashions it,

10Woe to the one who says to a father, ‘What you are begetting?’

11Thus says Yahweh, the holy one of Israel,

“Ask me of the things to come about my children,

12I myself made the earth,

I, my hands, stretched out the heavens,

13I myself have stirred him up in righteousness,

He himself shall build my city,

not for price or a gift,” says Yahweh of hosts.

Yahweh the Only Savior

14Thus says Yahweh:

and the merchandise of Cush

shall pass over to you;

and they shall walk behind you.

and they shall bow down to you;

‘Surely God is with you, and there is no other.

15Surely you are a God who keeps yourself hidden,

16All of them are ashamed and indeed humiliated;

17Israel is saved by Yahweh with everlasting salvation;

18For thus says Yahweh, who created the heavens,[#Literally “creating”]

and who made it.

he did not create it as emptiness—

“I am Yahweh and there is none besides me.

19I have spoken not in secrecy, in a place, a land, of darkness,

I, Yahweh, am speaking righteousness,

20Assemble and come;

21Declare and present your case,

Who made this known from former times,

Was it not I, Yahweh?

a righteous God besides me,

22Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth,

23I have sworn by myself;

‘Every knee shall kneel down to me;

24‘Only in Yahweh,’ one shall say to me, ‘are righteousness and strength.’

25In Yahweh all the offspring of Israel shall be in the right,

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