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Isaiah 45
New International Version

45 “This is what the Lord says to his anointed,(A)
to Cyrus,(B) whose right hand I take hold(C) of
to subdue nations(D) before him
and to strip kings of their armor,
to open doors before him
so that gates will not be shut:
2 I will go before you(E)
and will level(F) the mountains[a];
I will break down gates(G) of bronze
and cut through bars of iron.(H)
3 I will give you hidden treasures,(I)
riches stored in secret places,(J)
so that you may know(K) that I am the Lord,
the God of Israel, who summons you by name.(L)
4 For the sake of Jacob my servant,(M)
of Israel my chosen,
I summon you by name
and bestow on you a title of honor,
though you do not acknowledge(N) me.
5 I am the Lord, and there is no other;(O)
apart from me there is no God.(P)
I will strengthen you,(Q)
though you have not acknowledged me,
6 so that from the rising of the sun
to the place of its setting(R)
people may know(S) there is none besides me.(T)
I am the Lord, and there is no other.
7 I form the light and create darkness,(U)
I bring prosperity and create disaster;(V)
I, the Lord, do all these things.

8 “You heavens above, rain(W) down my righteousness;(X)
let the clouds shower it down.
Let the earth open wide,
let salvation(Y) spring up,
let righteousness flourish with it;
I, the Lord, have created it.

9 “Woe to those who quarrel(Z) with their Maker,(AA)
those who are nothing but potsherds(AB)
among the potsherds on the ground.
Does the clay say to the potter,(AC)
‘What are you making?’(AD)
Does your work say,
‘The potter has no hands’?(AE)
10 Woe to the one who says to a father,
‘What have you begotten?’
or to a mother,
‘What have you brought to birth?’

11 “This is what the Lord says—
the Holy One(AF) of Israel, and its Maker:(AG)
Concerning things to come,
do you question me about my children,
or give me orders about the work of my hands?(AH)
12 It is I who made the earth(AI)
and created mankind on it.
My own hands stretched out the heavens;(AJ)
I marshaled their starry hosts.(AK)
13 I will raise up Cyrus[b](AL) in my righteousness:
I will make all his ways straight.(AM)
He will rebuild my city(AN)
and set my exiles free,
but not for a price or reward,(AO)
says the Lord Almighty.”

14 This is what the Lord says:

“The products(AP) of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush,[c]
and those tall Sabeans(AQ)—
they will come over to you(AR)
and will be yours;
they will trudge behind you,(AS)
coming over to you in chains.(AT)
They will bow down before you
and plead(AU) with you, saying,
‘Surely God is with you,(AV) and there is no other;
there is no other god.(AW)’”

15 Truly you are a God who has been hiding(AX) himself,
the God and Savior(AY) of Israel.
16 All the makers of idols will be put to shame and disgraced;(AZ)
they will go off into disgrace together.
17 But Israel will be saved(BA) by the Lord
with an everlasting salvation;(BB)
you will never be put to shame or disgraced,(BC)
to ages everlasting.

18 For this is what the Lord says—
he who created the heavens,
he is God;
he who fashioned and made the earth,(BD)
he founded it;
he did not create it to be empty,(BE)
but formed it to be inhabited(BF)—
he says:
“I am the Lord,
and there is no other.(BG)
19 I have not spoken in secret,(BH)
from somewhere in a land of darkness;(BI)
I have not said to Jacob’s descendants,(BJ)
‘Seek(BK) me in vain.’
I, the Lord, speak the truth;
I declare what is right.(BL)

20 “Gather together(BM) and come;
assemble, you fugitives from the nations.
Ignorant(BN) are those who carry(BO) about idols of wood,
who pray to gods that cannot save.(BP)
21 Declare what is to be, present it—
let them take counsel together.
Who foretold(BQ) this long ago,
who declared it from the distant past?(BR)
Was it not I, the Lord?
And there is no God apart from me,(BS)
a righteous God(BT) and a Savior;(BU)
there is none but me.

22 “Turn(BV) to me and be saved,(BW)
all you ends of the earth;(BX)
for I am God, and there is no other.(BY)
23 By myself I have sworn,(BZ)
my mouth has uttered in all integrity(CA)
a word that will not be revoked:(CB)
Before me every knee will bow;(CC)
by me every tongue will swear.(CD)
24 They will say of me, ‘In the Lord alone
are deliverance(CE) and strength.(CF)’”
All who have raged against him
will come to him and be put to shame.(CG)
25 But all the descendants(CH) of Israel
will find deliverance(CI) in the Lord
and will make their boast in him.(CJ)

#### Footnotes

1. Isaiah 45:2 Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint; the meaning of the word in the Masoretic Text is uncertain.
2. Isaiah 45:13 Hebrew him
3. Isaiah 45:14 That is, the upper Nile region

#### Cross references

1. Isaiah 45:1 : S Ps 45:7
2. Isaiah 45:1 : S 2Ch 36:22; S Isa 41:2
3. Isaiah 45:1 : Ps 73:23; Isa 41:13; 42:6
4. Isaiah 45:1 : Isa 48:14; Jer 50:35; 51:20, 24; Mic 4:13
5. Isaiah 45:2 : Ex 23:20
6. Isaiah 45:2 : S Isa 40:4
7. Isaiah 45:2 : S Isa 13:2
8. Isaiah 45:2 : Ps 107:16; 147:13; Jer 51:30; La 2:9; Na 3:13
9. Isaiah 45:3 : S 2Ki 24:13; Jer 50:37; 51:13
10. Isaiah 45:3 : Jer 41:8
11. Isaiah 45:3 : Isa 41:23
12. Isaiah 45:3 : S Ex 33:12; S Isa 43:1
13. Isaiah 45:4 : S Isa 14:1; 41:8-9
14. Isaiah 45:4 : Ac 17:23
15. Isaiah 45:5 : S Isa 44:8
16. Isaiah 45:5 : S Dt 32:12; S Ps 18:31; S Isa 43:10
17. Isaiah 45:5 : S Ps 18:39; Eze 30:24-25
18. Isaiah 45:6 : S Ps 113:3; Isa 43:5
19. Isaiah 45:6 : S Isa 11:9
20. Isaiah 45:6 : ver 5, 18; Isa 14:13-14; 47:8, 10; Zep 2:15
21. Isaiah 45:7 : S Ge 1:4; S Ex 10:22
22. Isaiah 45:7 : S Isa 14:15; S 31:2; La 3:38
23. Isaiah 45:8 : Ps 72:6; S 133:3; Joel 3:18
24. Isaiah 45:8 : ver 24; Ps 85:11; S Isa 41:2; 46:13; 48:18; 60:21; 61:10, 11; 62:1; Hos 10:12; Joel 2:23; Am 5:24; Mal 4:2
25. Isaiah 45:8 : S Ps 85:9; Isa 12:3
26. Isaiah 45:9 : S Job 12:13; S 15:25; S 27:2; 1Co 10:22
27. Isaiah 45:9 : S Job 33:13
28. Isaiah 45:9 : Ps 22:15
29. Isaiah 45:9 : S Isa 29:16; Ro 9:20-21*
30. Isaiah 45:9 : S Job 9:12; Da 4:35
31. Isaiah 45:9 : S Isa 10:15
32. Isaiah 45:11 : S Isa 1:4
33. Isaiah 45:11 : S Ps 149:2; S Isa 51:13
34. Isaiah 45:11 : S Ps 8:6; S Isa 19:25
35. Isaiah 45:12 : S Ge 1:1
36. Isaiah 45:12 : S Ge 2:1; S Isa 48:13
37. Isaiah 45:12 : S Ne 9:6; S Job 38:32
38. Isaiah 45:13 : S 2Ch 36:22; S Isa 41:2
39. Isaiah 45:13 : S 1Ki 8:36; S Ps 26:12; S Isa 40:4
40. Isaiah 45:13 : S Ezr 1:2
41. Isaiah 45:13 : Isa 52:3
42. Isaiah 45:14 : 2Sa 8:2; Isa 18:7; 60:5
43. Isaiah 45:14 : S Isa 2:3; 60:11; 62:2; Zec 8:20-22
44. Isaiah 45:14 : S Isa 2:3
45. Isaiah 45:14 : S Ge 27:29
46. Isaiah 45:14 : S 2Sa 3:34; S Isa 14:1-2
47. Isaiah 45:14 : Jer 16:19; Zec 8:20-23
48. Isaiah 45:14 : 1Co 14:25
49. Isaiah 45:14 : S Ps 18:31; S Isa 11:9; S 43:10
50. Isaiah 45:15 : S Dt 31:17; Ps 44:24; S Isa 1:15
51. Isaiah 45:15 : S Isa 25:9
52. Isaiah 45:16 : S Ps 35:4; S Isa 1:29
53. Isaiah 45:17 : Jer 23:6; 33:16; Ro 11:26
54. Isaiah 45:17 : S Isa 12:2
55. Isaiah 45:17 : S Ge 30:23; S Isa 29:22; S 41:11
56. Isaiah 45:18 : S Ge 1:1
57. Isaiah 45:18 : S Ge 1:2
58. Isaiah 45:18 : S Ge 1:26
59. Isaiah 45:18 : ver 5; Dt 4:35
60. Isaiah 45:19 : Isa 48:16; 65:4
61. Isaiah 45:19 : Jer 2:31
62. Isaiah 45:19 : ver 25; Isa 41:8; 65:9; Jer 31:36
63. Isaiah 45:19 : S Dt 4:29; S 2Ch 15:2
64. Isaiah 45:19 : S Dt 30:11
65. Isaiah 45:20 : S Isa 43:9
66. Isaiah 45:20 : S Isa 44:19
67. Isaiah 45:20 : Ps 115:7; Isa 46:1; Jer 10:5
68. Isaiah 45:20 : Dt 32:37; S Isa 44:17; Jer 1:16; 2:28
69. Isaiah 45:21 : S Isa 41:22
70. Isaiah 45:21 : Isa 46:10
71. Isaiah 45:21 : ver 5; S Ps 46:10; Isa 46:9; Mk 12:32
72. Isaiah 45:21 : Ps 11:7
73. Isaiah 45:21 : S Ps 3:8; S Isa 25:9
74. Isaiah 45:22 : S Isa 44:22; Zec 12:10
75. Isaiah 45:22 : Nu 21:8-9; S 2Ch 20:12
76. Isaiah 45:22 : S Ge 49:10; S Isa 11:9, 12; 49:6, 12
77. Isaiah 45:22 : Hos 13:4
78. Isaiah 45:23 : S Ge 22:16; S Isa 14:24
79. Isaiah 45:23 : S Dt 30:11; Heb 6:13
80. Isaiah 45:23 : Isa 55:11
81. Isaiah 45:23 : S ver 14
82. Isaiah 45:23 : S Ps 63:11; S Isa 19:18; Ro 14:11*; Php 2:10-11
83. Isaiah 45:24 : S ver 8; Jer 33:16
84. Isaiah 45:24 : S Dt 33:29; S Ps 18:39; S Isa 40:26; 63:1
85. Isaiah 45:24 : S Isa 41:11
86. Isaiah 45:25 : S ver 19
87. Isaiah 45:25 : S Isa 4:3; S 49:4
88. Isaiah 45:25 : S Isa 24:23; S 41:16

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