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,