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Isaiah, Chapter 45

¹ Whom I have taken by the right hand, To subdue nations before him And^a Lit I will looseto loose the loins of kings; To open doors before him so that gates will not be shut:	1 Isa 44:28 Psa 73:23 Isa 41:13 Isa 42:6 Isa 41:2 Isa 41:25 Jer 50:3 Jer 50:35 Jer 51:11 Jer 51:20 Jer 51:24 Job 12:21 Isa 45:5
² Thus says the LORD to Cyrus His anointed,	2 Isa 40:4 Psa 107:16 Jer 51:30
² “I will go before you and make the^b Another reading is mountainsrough places smooth; I will shatter the doors of bronze and cut through their iron bars.
³ “I will give you the^c Or hoarded treasurestreasures of darkness And hidden wealth of secret places, So that you may know that it is I, The LORD, the God of Israel, who calls you by your name.	3 Jer 41:8 Jer 50:37 Exo 33:12 Exo 33:17 Isa 43:1 Isa 49:1
⁴ “For the sake of Jacob My servant, And Israel My chosen one, I have also called you by your name; I have given you a title of honor Though you have not known Me.	4 Isa 41:8 Isa 41:9 Isa 44:1 Isa 43:1 Act 17:23
⁵ “I am the LORD, and there is no other; Besides Me there is no God. I will^d Or armgird you, though you have not known Me;	5 Isa 45:6 Isa 45:14 Isa 45:18 Isa 45:21 Isa 46:9 Isa 44:6 Isa 44:8 Psa 18:39
⁶ That^e Lit theymen may know from the rising to the setting of the sun That there is no one besides Me. I am the LORD, and there is no other,	6 Psa 102:15 Mal 1:11 Isa 45:5
⁷ The One forming light and creating darkness, Causing^f Or peacewell-being and creating calamity; I am the LORD who does all these.	7 Isa 42:16 Psa 104:20 Psa 105:28 Isa 31:2 Isa 47:11 Amo 3:6
⁸ “Drip down, O heavens, from above, And let the clouds pour down righteousness; Let the earth open up and salvation bear fruit, And righteousness spring up with it. I, the LORD, have created it.	8 Psa 72:6 Hos 10:12 Hos 14:5 Joe 3:18 Psa 85:11 Isa 60:21 Isa 61:11
⁹ “Woe to the one who quarrels with his^g Lit FashionerMaker— An earthenware vessel^h Lit withamong the vessels of earth! Will the clay say to theⁱ Lit Fashionerpotter, ‘What are you doing?’ Or the thing you are making say, ‘He has no hands’?	9 Job 15:25 Job 40:8 Job 40:9 Psa 2:2 Psa 2:3 Pro 21:30 Jer 50:24 Isa 29:16 Isa 64:8 Jer 18:6 Rom 9:20 Rom 9:21
¹⁰ “Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What are you begetting?’ Or to a woman, ‘To what are you^j Lit in labor pains withgiving birth?’”
¹¹ Thus says the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his^k Lit FashionerMaker: “^l Or Will you askAsk Me about the things to come^m Or uponconcerning My sons, And you shall commit to Me the work of My hands.	11 Isa 43:15 Isa 48:17 Eze 39:7 Isa 44:2 Isa 54:5 Isa 8:19 Jer 31:9 Isa 19:25 Isa 29:23 Isa 60:21 Isa 64:8
¹² “It is I who made the earth, and created man upon it. I stretched out the heavens with My hands And Iⁿ Or commandedordained all their host.	12 Isa 42:5 Isa 45:18 Jer 27:5 Psa 104:2 Isa 42:5 Isa 44:24 Gen 2:1 Neh 9:6
¹³ “I have aroused him in righteousness And I will make all his ways smooth; He will build My city and will let My exiles go free, Without any payment or reward,” says the LORD of hosts.	13 Isa 41:2 Isa 45:2 Ch2 36:22 Ch2 36:23 Isa 44:28 Isa 52:3
¹⁴ Thus says the LORD, “The^o Lit laborproducts of Egypt and the merchandise of^p Or EthiopiaCush And the Sabeans, men of stature, Will come over to you and will be yours; They will walk behind you, they will come over in chains And will bow down to you; They will make supplication to you: ‘^q Or God is with you aloneSurely, God is^r Or inwith you, and there is none else, No other God.’”	14 Psa 68:31 Isa 19:21 Isa 18:1 Isa 43:3 Isa 14:1 Isa 14:2 Isa 49:23 Isa 54:3 Psa 149:8 Isa 49:23 Isa 60:14 Jer 16:19 Zec 8:20-23 Co1 14:25 Isa 45:5
¹⁵ Truly, You are a God who hides Himself, O God of Israel, Savior!	15 Psa 44:24 Isa 1:15 Isa 8:17 Isa 57:17 Isa 43:3
¹⁶ They will be put to shame and even humiliated, all of them; The manufacturers of idols will go away together in humiliation.	16 Isa 42:17 Isa 44:9 Isa 44:11
¹⁷ Israel has been saved by the LORD With an everlasting salvation; You will not be put to shame or humiliated To all eternity.	17 Isa 26:4 Isa 51:6 Rom 11:26 Isa 49:23 Isa 50:7 Isa 54:4
¹⁸ For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens (He is the God who formed the earth and made it, He established it and did not create it^s Or in vaina waste place, but formed it to be inhabited), “I am the LORD, and there is none else.	18 Isa 42:5 Isa 45:12 Gen 1:2 Gen 1:26 Psa 115:16 Isa 45:5
¹⁹ “I have not spoken in secret, In^t Lit a place of a land of darknesssome dark land; I did not say to the^u Lit seedoffspring of Jacob, ‘Seek Me in^v Or vaina waste place’; I, the LORD, speak righteousness, Declaring things that are upright.	19 Isa 48:16 Isa 45:25 Isa 65:9 Ch2 15:2 Psa 78:34 Jer 29:13 Jer 29:14 Psa 19:8 Isa 45:23 Isa 63:1 Isa 43:12 Isa 44:8
²⁰ “Gather yourselves and come; Draw near together, you fugitives of the nations; They have no knowledge, Who carry about^w Lit the wood of their graven imagetheir wooden idol And pray to a god who cannot save.	20 Isa 43:9 Isa 44:18 Isa 44:19 Isa 48:5-7 Isa 46:1 Isa 46:7 Jer 10:5 Isa 44:17 Isa 46:6 Isa 46:7
²¹ “Declare and set forth your case; Indeed, let them consult together. Who has announced this from of old? Who has long since declared it? Is it not I, the LORD? And there is no other God besides Me, A righteous God and a Savior; There is none except Me.	21 Isa 41:23 Isa 43:9 Isa 41:26 Isa 44:7 Isa 48:14 Isa 45:5 Isa 43:3 Isa 43:11
²² “Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; For I am God, and there is no other.	22 Num 21:8 Num 21:9 Ch2 20:12 Mic 7:7 Zec 12:10 Isa 30:15 Isa 49:6 Isa 49:12 Isa 52:10
²³ “I have sworn by Myself, The word has gone forth from My mouth in righteousness And will not turn back, That to Me every knee will bow, every tongue will swear allegiance.	23 Gen 22:16 Isa 62:8 Heb 6:13 Isa 55:11 Rom 14:11 Php 2:10 Deu 6:13 Psa 63:11 Isa 19:18 Isa 65:16
²⁴ “They will say of Me, ‘Only in the LORD are righteousness and strength.’ Men will come to Him, And all who were angry at Him will be put to shame.	24 Jer 33:16 Isa 41:11
²⁵ “In the LORD all the offspring of Israel Will be justified and will glory.”	25 Ki1 8:32 Isa 53:11 Isa 41:16 Isa 60:19


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