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Isaiah 45 (AMP)

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¹ THUS SAYS the Lord to His anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held to subdue nations before him, and I will unarm and ungird the loins of kings to open doors before him, so that gates will not be shut. ² I will go before you and level the mountains ; I will break in pieces the doors of bronze and cut asunder the bars of iron. ³ And I will give you the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that it is I, the Lord, the God of Israel, Who calls you by your name. ⁴ For the sake of Jacob My servant, and of Israel My chosen, I have called you by your name. I have surnamed you, though you have not known Me. ⁵ I am the Lord, and there is no one else; there is no God besides Me. I will gird and arm you, though you have not known Me, ⁶ That men may know from the east and the rising of the sun and from the west and the setting of the sun that there is no God besides Me. I am the Lord, and no one else . ⁷ I form the light and create darkness, I make peace and I create evil (calamity); I am the Lord, Who does all these things. ⁸ Let fall in showers, you heavens, from above, and let the skies rain down righteousness ; let the earth open, and let them sprout forth salvation, and let righteousness germinate and spring up together; I the Lord have created it. ⁹ Woe to him who strives with his Maker!--a worthless piece of broken pottery among other pieces equally worthless ! Shall the clay say to him who fashions it, What do you think you are making? or, Your work has no handles? ¹⁰ Woe to him who says to a father, What are you begetting? or to a woman, With what are you in travail? ¹¹ Thus says the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker: Would you question Me about things to come concerning My children, and concerning the work of My hands command Me? ¹² I made the earth and created man upon it. I, with My hands, stretched out the heavens, and I commanded all their host. ¹³ I will raise up in righteousness , and I will direct all his ways; he will build My city, and he will let My captives go, not for hire or for a bribe, says the Lord of hosts. ¹⁴ Thus says the Lord: The labor and wealth of Egypt and the merchandise of Ethiopia and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to you and they shall be yours; they shall follow you; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down before you; they shall make supplication to you, saying, Surely God is with you, and there is no other, no God besides Him. ¹⁵ Truly You are a God Who hides Himself, O God of Israel, the Savior. ¹⁶ They shall be put to shame, yes, confounded, all of them; they who are makers of idols shall go off into confusion together. ¹⁷ But Israel shall be saved by the Lord with an everlasting salvation; you shall not be put to shame or confounded to all eternity. ¹⁸ For thus says the Lord--Who created the heavens, God Himself, Who formed the earth and made it, Who established it and did not create it to be a worthless waste; He formed it to be inhabited--I am the Lord, and there is no one else. ¹⁹ I have not spoken in secret, in a corner of the land of darkness; I did not call the descendants of Jacob , saying, Seek Me for nothing . I, the Lord, speak righteousness (the truth--trustworthy, straightforward correspondence between deeds and words); I declare things that are right. ²⁰ Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you survivors of the nations! They have no knowledge who carry about their wooden idols and keep on praying to a god that cannot save. ²¹ Declare and bring forward your strong arguments ; yes, take counsel together. Who announced this beforehand (long ago)? declared it of old? Was it not I, the Lord? And there is no other God besides Me, a rigidly and uncompromisingly just and righteous God and Savior; there is none besides Me. ²² Look to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other. ²³ I have sworn by Myself, the word is gone out of My mouth in righteousness and shall not return, that unto Me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear . ²⁴ Only in the Lord shall one say, I have righteousness (salvation and victory) and strength . To Him shall all come who were incensed against Him, and they shall be ashamed. ²⁵ In the Lord shall all the offspring of Israel be justified (enjoy righteousness, salvation, and victory) and shall glory.