Isaiah 45 — Legacy Standard Bible

Cyrus, Yahweh’s Anointed

45Thus says Yahweh to ^aCyrus His anointed,Whom I have taken hold of by his right ^bhand,To ^csubdue nations before himAnd ¹to ^dloose the loins of kings,To open doors before him so that gates will not be shut:²“I will go before you and ^amake the ¹rough places smooth;I will ^bshatter the doors of bronze and cut through their iron ^cbars.³“I will give you the ¹^,^atreasures of darknessAnd hidden wealth of secret places,So that you may know that it is I,Yahweh, the God of Israel, who ^bcalls you by your name.⁴“For the sake of ^aJacob My servant,And Israel My chosen one,I have also ^bcalled you by your name;I have given you a title of honorThough you have ^cnot known Me.⁵“I am Yahweh, and ^athere is no other;^bBesides Me there is no God.I will ¹^,^cgird you, though you have not known Me,⁶That ^athey may know from the rising to the setting of the sunThat there is ^bno one besides Me.I am Yahweh, and there is no other,⁷The One ^aforming light and ^bcreating darkness,Producing peace and ^ccreating calamity;I am Yahweh who does all these.

Yahweh the Maker

⁸“^aDrip down, O heavens, from above,And let the skies pour down righteousness;Let the ^bearth open up and salvation bear fruit,^cAnd righteousness ¹spring up with it.I, Yahweh, have created it.⁹“Woe to the one who ^acontends with his ¹Maker—An earthenware vessel ²among the vessels of earth!Will the ^bclay say to the ³potter, ‘What are you doing?’Or the thing you are making say, ‘He has no hands’?¹⁰“Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What are you begetting?’Or to a woman, ‘With what are you in labor pains?’”

¹¹Thus says ^aYahweh, the Holy One of Israel, and his ¹^,^bMaker: “²^,^cAsk Me about the things that are to come ³concerning My ^dsons,And you shall ⁴commit to Me ^ethe work of My hands.

¹²“It is I who ^amade the earth and created man upon it.I ^bstretched out the heavens with My hands,And I commanded ^call their host.¹³“I have awakened him in ^arighteousness,And I will ^bmake all his ways smooth;He will ^cbuild My city and will ^dlet My exiles go,Without any payment or reward,” says Yahweh of hosts.

¹⁴Thus says Yahweh, “The fruit of the labor of ^aEgypt and the profit of ¹^,^bEthiopiaAnd the Sabeans, men of stature,Will ^ccome over to you and will be yours;They will walk behind you; they will come over in ^dchainsAnd will ^ebow down to you;They will make supplication to you:‘²Surely, ^fGod is ³with you, and there is none else,No other God.’”

¹⁵Truly, You are a God who ^ahides Himself,O God of Israel, ^bSavior!¹⁶They will be ^aput to shame and even dishonored, all of them;The ^bcraftsmen of idols will go away together in dishonor.¹⁷Israel has been saved by YahwehWith an ^aeverlasting salvation;You ^bwill not be put to shame or dishonoredTo all eternity.

¹⁸For thus says Yahweh, who ^acreated the heavens (He is the God who ^bformed the earth and made it; He established it and did not create it ¹a ^cformless place, but formed it to be ^dinhabited), “I am Yahweh, and ^ethere is none else.

¹⁹“^aI have not spoken in secret,In ¹some dark land;I did not say to the ^bseed of Jacob,‘^cSeek Me in ²a formless place’;I, Yahweh, ^dspeak righteousness,^eDeclaring things that are upright.²⁰“^aGather yourselves and come;Draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations;^bThey do not know,Who ^ccarry about their graven image of woodAnd ^dpray to a god who cannot save.²¹“^aDeclare and draw near with your case;Indeed, let them consult together.^bWho has made this heard from of old?Who has long since declared it?Is it not I, Yahweh?And there is ^cno other God besides Me,A righteous God and a ^dSavior;There is none except Me.²²“^aTurn to Me and ^bbe saved, all the ends of the earth;For I am God, and there is no other.²³“^aI have sworn by Myself,The ^bword has gone forth from My mouth in righteousnessAnd will not turn back,That to Me ^cevery knee will bow, every tongue will ^dswear allegiance.²⁴“They will say of Me, ‘Only ^ain Yahweh are righteousness and strength.’Men will come to Him,And ^ball who were angry at Him will be put to shame.²⁵“In Yahweh all the seed of IsraelWill be ^ajustified and will ^bboast.”