Isaiah 45

Revised Geneva Translation

45 Thus says the LORD to Cyrus, His anointed, whose right hand I have strengthened to subdue nations before him, and I will weaken the loins of kings, and open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:

² “I will go before you, and make the crooked straight. I will break the bronze doors and burst the iron bars.

³ “And I will give you the treasures of darkness, and the things hidden in secret places, so that you may know that I am the LORD, Who calls you by your name, even the God of Israel.

⁴ “For Jacob, My servant’s, sake, and Israel, My elect, I will call you by your name, and name you, though you have not known Me.

⁵ “I am the LORD, and there is no other. There is no God besides Me. I girded you, though you have not known Me,

⁶ “so that they may know from the rising of the Sun, and from the west, that there is none besides Me. I am the LORD, and there is no other.

⁷ “I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create misery. I, the LORD, do all these things.

⁸ “You heavens send the dew from above, and let the clouds drop down righteousness. Let the Earth open, and let salvation and justice grow forth. Let it bring them forth together. I, the LORD, have created it.

⁹ “Woe be to him who strives with his Maker, the potsherd with the potsherds of the Earth. Shall the clay say to him who fashions it, ‘What do you make?’ or, ‘Your work, it has no hands’?

¹⁰ “Woe to him who says to his father, ‘What have you begotten?’ or to his mother, ‘What have you brought forth?’”

¹¹ Thus says the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker: “Ask Me of things to come concerning My sons, and command concerning the works of My Hands.

¹² “I have made the Earth and created man upon it. I, whose Hands have spread out the heavens, I have even commanded all their army.

¹³ “I have raised him up in righteousness and I will direct all his ways. He shall build my city and he shall let my captives go, without price or reward,” says the LORD of Hosts.

¹⁴ Thus says the LORD: “The labor of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come to you. And they shall be yours. They shall follow you, shall go in chains. They shall fall down before you and make supplication to you, saying, ‘Surely God is in you, and there is no other god besides.’”

¹⁵ Truly, You, O God, hide Yourself, O God, the Savior of Israel.

¹⁶ All they shall be ashamed, and also confounded. Those who are the makers of images shall go to confusion together.

¹⁷ Israel shall be saved in the LORD, with an everlasting salvation. You shall not be ashamed or confounded, forever and ever.

¹⁸ For thus says the LORD (Who created Heaven. God Himself—Who formed the Earth and made it—He Who prepared it. He did not create it to be empty. He formed it to be inhabited): “I am the LORD, and there is no other.

¹⁹ “I have not spoken in secret, or in a place of darkness, on the Earth. I did not say meaninglessly to the seed of Jacob, ‘Seek Me’. I, the LORD, speak righteousness and declare righteous things.

²⁰ “Assemble yourselves and come. Draw near together, you fugitives from the Gentiles. Those who set up the wood of their idol, and pray to a god that cannot save them, have no knowledge.

²¹ “Tell, and bring them. And let them take counsel together. Who has declared this from the beginning, has told it long ago? Have not I, the LORD? And there is no other god besides Me, a just God and a Savior. There is none besides Me.

²² Look to Me, and you shall be saved. All the ends of the Earth shall be saved. for I am God, and there is no other.

²³ “I have sworn by Myself. The Word has gone out of My Mouth in righteousness and shall not return, so that every knee shall bow to Me. Every tongue shall swear.

²⁴ “Surely, he shall say, ‘In the LORD I have righteousness and strength.’ He shall come to him. And all who are angry with Him shall be ashamed.

²⁵ “The whole seed of Israel shall be justified and glory in the LORD.”