Isaiah 45

XLV

¹Thus saith Jehovah to his Anointed, to Cyrus,

Whom I hold fast by his right hand;

To subdue nations before him,

And ungird 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 make the crooked places straight:

I will break in pieces the gates of brass.

And cut in sunder the bars of iron.

³And I will give thee the treasures of darkness,

And the stores deeply hidden in secret places;

That thou mayest know that I am Jehovah ,

He who calleth thee by thy name, the God of Israel.

⁴For Jacob my servant’s sake,

And Israel my chosen,

I have even called thee by thy name;

I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.

⁵I am Jehovah , and there is none else;

There is no God beside me:

I girded thee, though thou knewest me not;

⁶That men may know from the rising of the sun,

And from the west, that there is none beside me;

I am Jehovah , and there is none else:

⁷I form light, and create darkness;

I make peace, and create evil:

I Jehovah do all these things.

⁸Drop down, ye heavens, from above;

And let the clouds shower down righteousness;

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

And let righteousness spring up together:

I Jehovah have created it.

⁹Wo unto him that striveth with his Maker!

Let a potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth.

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

Or thy work; He hath no hands?

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

Or to the woman, What dost thou bring forth?

¹¹Thus saith Jehovah ,

The Holy One of Israel, and his Maker:

Of things to come ask me;

But over my sons, and over the work of my hands, let me have the command.

¹²I have made the earth,

And created man upon it:

I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens,

And to all the host of them I have given command.

¹³I have raised him up in righteousness,

And I will make straight all his ways:

He shall build my city, and release my captives,

Not for price, nor for reward:

Saith Jehovah of hosts.

¹⁴Thus saith Jehovah :

The labour of Egypt, the merchandise of Cush,

And of the Sabeans, men of stature;

Shall come over unto thee, and shall be thine:

They shall follow thee; in chains shall they pass along,

And they shall bow down unto thee;

They shall make supplication unto thee, saying :

Surely God is in thee, and there is none else;

There is no God besides.

¹⁵Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself;

O God of Israel, the Saviour!

¹⁶They are ashamed, and also confounded, all of them;

They retire in confusion together that are makers of images.

¹⁷But Israel shall be saved through Jehovah with an everlasting salvation:

Ye shall not be ashamed, nor confounded, world without end.

¹⁸For thus saith Jehovah who created the heavens;

He himself is the God who formed the earth, and made it; it was He that hath established it;

He created it not in vain; He formed it to be inhabited:

I am Jehovah , and there is none else.

¹⁹I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth;

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

I, Jehovah , speak the truth: I declare the things that are right

²⁰Assemble yourselves and come;

Gather yourselves together, ye that are escaped of the nations:

They have no knowledge that carry about the wood of their graven image,

And pray to a god that cannot save.

²¹Publish it abroad, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together:

Who hath made this known from ancient time, hath declared it of old?

Was it not I, Jehovah ? besides me there is no God;

A just God, and a Saviour; there is none beside me.

²²Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth:

For I am God, and there is none else.

²³I have sworn by myself, the truth is gone out of my mouth;

The word, and it shall not be revoked:

That unto me every knee shall bow,

Every tongue shall swear.

²⁴Only in Jehovah , shall one say of me, is righteousness and strength;

To Him shall men come,

And all that are incensed against Him shall be ashamed.

²⁵In Jehovah shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.